Show HN: We are hiring engineering interns who don't use social media(blog.meetmiy.com)
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Show HN: We are hiring engineering interns who don't use social media
https://blog.meetmiy.com/we-are-hiring-engineering-interns-who-dont-use-social-media
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This really bothers me, but I can’t exactly tell why.
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.
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.
It's literally an email marketing company. Email is an og social media. They are posting their listing on hn, a forum, another og social media. I just dont get this mentality that treats Facebook/twitter as a different class of technology than email, rss, reddit, irc, and AIM/MSN/ICQ. Their difference is in degree not kind. Facebook is email/aim+wordpress/blogger. It's rss with a type of sharing+popularity-detector.
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.
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.
A lot of people don't use email as social media anymore, though, but rather mostly one-way communication with big entities like your bank, many of which aren't expected to reply back. As this is a marketing company, they may also have the distinction that social media marketing generally involves having people socially convince you that something is good; but email is not a good forum for that.
feel the same maybe it should be changed to:
> We are hiring engineering interns who don't use facebook or tweeter and only occasionally instagram
> We are hiring engineering interns who don't use facebook or tweeter and only occasionally instagram
This bothers me too. I don't like social media, and I do agree that they might be affecting people's careers and personal lives to some extend, but I wouldn't like to work in a company that creates such a tight bubble around such a very specifc topic.
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.
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.
people who use social media will be less creative, have higher levels of anxiety and lower attention spans.
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).
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).
$9,600 a month for an intern! I really don't have a good sense of silicon valley salaries it seems...
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?
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?
There seems to a contradiction here:
> 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?
> 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?
Holy crap! $9,600 per month for an intern!
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.
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.
This is the real story. That's absolutely nuts, and yet I know that someone is going to chime in to say that it's not a living wage in Silicon Valley. Which is also nuts.
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.
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.
> live elsewhere
> nearly double the average for where I live
Well, that's probably why
> nearly double the average for where I live
Well, that's probably why
That's kind of my point -- living in Silicon Valley, I'd be paid less than an intern, apparently. Look at it another way - this intern position is being paid more than double the national average salary [0]. Outside of Silicon Valley, that's nuts. Within Silicon Valley, not so much.
Ergo, prices in Silicon Valley are nuts. Which isn't news, per se.
[0] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#00-0000
Ergo, prices in Silicon Valley are nuts. Which isn't news, per se.
[0] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#00-0000
Don't have social media? Come help us spam people the old fashioned way with email.
I kinda want to make a startup, just to hire interns who only read text based e-mails.....
> We are exclusively hiring engineers who use CLI email clients and browse the web using Lynx
One major benefit: everyone at the company will be 10x
One major benefit: everyone at the company will be 10x
Isn’t the main point of hiring being getting someone who can get things done? Whether they are on social media is at best an indirect effect on that metric.
This is a very weird ask, but to be fair the pay is very handsome.
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 :-)
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 :-)
I think there’s some sort of underlying social experiment here
Show HN can be used for job posts?
No. This post violates both the HN guidelines[1] (no job posts allowed) and the "Show HN" rules[2] (must be something you built that people can try out).
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Isn't HN a kind of social media though ?
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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.