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Hehe - Xobni recruiting video

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There's nothing I hate more than when my company wants me to pose for a brochure photo or website photo etc. Maybe I'm a "bad employee", but like most devs, I'm just an introvert naturally. However good or bad the video was, there are lots of people who would never want to participate in such silly things, irrespective of the technical sympathy that might exist between themselves and the company.

No employees were harmed during the making of this recruitment video.

On the contrary, I am emotionally scarred by (my own) sad attempt at rapping. :)

I want to start my recovery by issuing a formal apology to the Cocoa Brovaz.

But really, as someone who generally tends towards introversion, I guarantee swift, painful justice for the first person to try labeling someone "not a team player" just because they aren't into stuff like this.

However, it is important that they can laugh things off.

At least for me, it was fun to loosen up a bit.

Which one were you?

greg is the one formerly known as logcabin.

BTW, now that you're at Xobni, is Pairwise RIP?

I'm sure participation in Xobni's shenanigans is fully opt-in.

"Our developer workstations boast 386 Mhz . . . and industry-leading green text graphics. .." This is classic! You people are hilarious. I'm still trying to figure out what that was . . . did one of the dudes have a bottle of maple syrup hung around his neck (?) and another one fuzzy dice . . . walking down the sidewalk during the rap music scene? Awesome.

I'm confused: why put a line over the 'o' in 'Xobni', indicating a long vowel, and then proceed to pronounce it 'Zahbnee'?

yeah, sorry about that. we use to pronounce it with a long o, but most people would pronounce it 'zahbnee' so we changed the pronunciation. However, we didn't want to change our little mascot dude or the logo. Even in a 1 1/2 year old startup we have legacy. weird.

Thanks for the clarification.

At RailsConf 2007, David Heinemeier Hansson started a sentence with something like "If you have---I can't believe I'm saying this---a legacy Rails app..."

I like the long o version better, myself. Zahbnee sounds a lot like zombie. Probably not the best association . . .

WTF. Sorry, but that video did not motivate me to join you company.

Maybe, you will find somebody with similiar sense of humor you guys have, but what the heck?

Looks kinda: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1759736

that video did not motivate me to join you company

I'm sure that was part of the point. A recruiting video this unusual both recruits and filters.

ok, i see, all the negative responses are getting negged.

If you don't want real feedback (even negative) than don't post something like that public.

"deuchebags looking for a next victim er.. employee to abuse."

Thats not exactly constructive feedback you've got there. Next time at least spell it right -> "douchebag"

I agree with you, it wasn't constructive feedback, so I removed that sentence. Still, either that video is of bad taste, or I am lacking some sense of humor. I can't say it is motivating at all.

I thought it was funny, but maybe thats something they are just filtering for. After all, its more enjoyable to work with people you have fun with (and share a sense of humor with).

on the contrary. while we hope that some people enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it, bad press is better than no press at all.

My consulting firm organizes protests outside the offices of companies looking to generate controversy. It's a very lucrative market.

Fake. They don't really talk like rappers. :(

That German guy sure has a nice suit.

swiss guy, unless gabor you really are german ;)? "schwizer ditch" anyone?

I actually do have German passport, and that's where I grew up. I can only say a limited number of things in Swiss German.

Das ist sehr gut Gabor. Ich bin eine stinke arschloch vom Peru! Deutscher ist das beste. Meine freundin wurde geboren im Berlin. Ausgenommen, meine deutsche ist scheisse!

Y yo hablo espanol tambien. Porque yo soy Peruano, mi espanol es mejor que mi alleman.

I speak english as well.

Have a banana.

I think I might.

Hilarious video, I guess it's Recruitment backwards (tnemtiurceR).

High quality on Blip.tv: http://blip.tv/file/405285

Blip videos look so niiiice

Didn't really enjoyed the video, I guess I'm not part of their targeted segment...

I love the Ballmer turn from the German guy at the end.

That was hilarious. Gabor was great

update. i suck. better?

Nice.. i like

wtf?

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