My startup is hiring

I really hate years of experience used as a metric because it doesn't distinguish between people who did are actually experienced in a technology and people who have merely been around a technology for a long time but never bothered to probe its internals.

Not that I'm looking for a job, but this advert doesn't exactly sell the position, either. What sorts of technical problems are you solving? What is your development environment like? How does your team collaborate? You mention PHP, javascript, and linux, but what are you doing with these technologies specifically?

So, why does your startup have a Cordon Bleu trained chef? Is that blowing money that could be better spent elsewhere? I understand that feeding your programmers keeps butts in seats that otherwise would be doing something else, but that just seems a bit excessive.

Kind of like the game rooms, health spas, etc., that wasted a lot of money in the last boom.