NYCPHP Meetup

[Nik Bonaddio]

Startups thrive on employees that share a common ideal and culture. We're a
sports startup; we expect our employees to enjoy sports, enjoy hanging out
with each other, and enjoy the common experience of building a company from
a ground up. Therefore, we overwhelmingly prefer someone who will fit in
well with us. A good place to start from on that whole "fitting in" mantra
is not making outrageously incorrect generalizations.

It's not for everyone and it's apparently not for you. Thank you for your
concern.

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Kristina Anderson <
ka at kacomputerconsulting.com> wrote:

>  These are the sorts of job posts that just  make me look forward to
> switching to a different career... "kegerator" & "beer pong"?
> I should want to hang out with you outside of work and watch you drink
> until you puke while listening to loud rock & roll music?  (From the tone of
> the below it seems like you  may be doing this during the workday!)
>
> Clearly nobody in this awesome company has yet seen their 25th birthday...
>
>
>
>
> On 4/11/2011 3:47 PM, Nik Bonaddio wrote:
>
> I'm not a recruiter. Recruiters are lame and have no idea what they're
> doing. I know exactly what I'm looking for, so I'm posting here.
>
> ---
>
> Let's start with the boring stuff up front: We're a small, agile,
> well-trafficked startup in the sports analytics space. We've been covered by
> TechCrunch, we've been written up in Sports Illustrated, and now we're going
> to revolutionize the way users consume and engage with sports content. Our
> founders are ballers, our advisors are even more ballerous, and just wait
> until you see our product..
>
> If you're someone who loves sports and also loves building products, then
> we're your company. Even if you're not a huge sports fan, feel free to reach
> out to us - we're more interested in someone who knows how to get stuff
> done. If you're wondering what kind of people we're like socially, we have a
> kegerator in our office and our most played artist on iTunes is Animal
> Collective. You should be able to get our jokes and we should be able to
> want to hang out with you outside of work.
>
> Our stack is built on PHP and MySQL, but we're considering moving to Couch
> or Mongo. What do you suggest? We'd love to know. We have a world-class
> designer and front-end developer on board, we need to find someone who is
> comfortable on the PHP backend, taking things from the browser-level all the
> way down to the DB. We're not looking for someone who is merely good; we're
> looking for *great* - '85 Bears great. Lemieux in the 91-92 playoffs
> great. Lemonade and BBQ on a Summer afternoon great.
> *
> Skillsets:*
>
>    - Excellent PHP skills (should be comfortable building out an
>    application scalable to 100,000 daily uniques)
>    - Knowledgeable of system-wide architecture (setting up version
>    control, release engineering structs, etc.)
>    - Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup setting
>    - Familiarity with beer pong and general precepts of social skill
>
>
>
> *Nice to have:*
>
>    - Familiarity with HTML/CSS/jQuery (not totally necessary as we already
>    have a world-class designer and front-end)
>    - Sports fan (big, big plus - let us know what your favorite team is)
>
>
>
> *What we're not:
> *
>
>    - Some huge, boring company where you'll have meetings about meetings
>    - A company that works in a space that you could care less about
>    - A startup that values founder's valuations over the future gains of
>    the employees
>    - A company founded by a bunch of suits who can't code Hello World in
>    BASIC
>
>
> *Even though we're a startup, this is a salary position.* We'll shell out
> for the right employee. There is also a *TON* of equity involved; you're
> the third employee and huge part of our future success - we'll take care of
> you. You should ideally be in NYC, but that won't stop us from moving
> forward with the right person.
>
> To apply, just send us a resume (please send nik at numberfire.com) and we'll
> go from there.
>
>
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