Show HN: We are hiring engineering interns who don't use social media
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I kid, though. If you have to have a media presence, you can't expect everyone to come to your mountain top hermitage, so you have to allow people to share your stuff easily.
If what people do on their own time doesn’t affect job performance, what’s the point of filtering by random criteria? Almost like disqualify based on a hobby or political/religious views.
Social media is just like another skill. You can use it to your advantage or abuse it.
Speaking for myself only, also noticed my levels of empathy towards others are also directly related to how much time I spend online and how much and what[1] I consume (and whatever headline has riled me up).
[1] It's easy to say "just avoid toxic content" when the majority of content (on social media is toxic).
I would also expect that a company that does "email campaigns with high conversions achieved through dynamic content such as images" would benefit from having people who at least understand social media which I assume is a large part of their user base.
The counter argument being, they arent filtering by people who dont use social media, as much as conducting a social experiment asking people TO quit social media if they are hired. I think its well within their right to build a culture of people with a mindset, and filter for people who live the message they are trying to propagate and/or are willing to forego "social media" as a participant in an exercise.
> We are hiring engineering interns who don't use facebook or tweeter and only occasionally instagram
I'm actually in the market for email marketing software but I cannot understand what you're doing that's new. Your home page has almost zero information and what it does show looks to be the same as other big names.
What are you doing that's different?
> We believe social media is very unhealthy
> We are a small startup focused on making email campaigns with high conversions achieved through dynamic content such as images.
Surely these are two sides of the attention economy?
That's an insane amount. That's the sort of money that most professionals here in the UK will never achieve, and it's on offer here for interns.
The Silicon Valley bubble is real.
I live elsewhere, make less than that in my job, and still have money to spare for retirement and extravagances. And my salary is nearly double the average for where I live.
> nearly double the average for where I live
Well, that's probably why
Ergo, prices in Silicon Valley are nuts. Which isn't news, per se.
One major benefit: everyone at the company will be 10x
I don't use social media, I don't live in the bay area, and I've been in the industry for a long time... but were it not for that, I would apply :-)