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by TheSkeptic 5419 days ago
YC S11 Company Seeks Uber Python Dev

We're a young company that's so hot, we melt ice in our sleep. Some of our investors even believe we're responsible for global warming. Out hotness is to be expected: our 5 founders hail from top engineering schools, and one even won $5,000 in a single night playing online poker when he was 13 (for reals).

Our users? Cooler than a polar bear's toe nails. Think Tom from MySpace, but even cooler. They're young, they love technology and they all have fat bank accounts. Oh, they're all beautiful people too.

Our trajectory is clear: extreme penetration of a lucrative niche market in Year 1, and world domination in Year 2. We've already grown 500% in our first 2 weeks after launch. See http://yfrog.com/kfu2tcj

We're looking for an awesome Python developer with a big ego and low self-esteem. Someone who knows he's the sheeeeet but doesn't want to prove it at a big company that does lame stuff like QA. Someone who can down a can of Coke and a box of Mentos and then go on to devour a four-course meal of web-scale challenges the likes of which no other startup has ever faced. Seriously.

What do we offer? Put simply, The Life. As an early employee, you'll receive a salary that will enable you to rent a condo in Palo Alto with 3 other startup dude roommates, a huge equity stake that will be massively diluted as we raise new rounds of funding from some of the most respected angels and VCs in the Valley, and the ginormous confidence that comes with knowing you're changing the world one unique visitor at a time.

If you're ready to take your awesomeness to the next level and think you have what it takes to hang, send us an email at socially.awkward.hipster.startup@gmail.com and tell us why we shouldn't laugh at your Github account.

10 comments

It is unfortunate that you posted this to such a transient medium as News.YC. This is art, of a bitter and brilliant variety that should be printed on crisp white paper with dark bold letters and hung in the MOMA. People would gather around it and claim to "get it".

But they wouldn't get it, of course, unless they'd lived through the same history as the artist.

>Someone who can down a can of Coke and a box of Mentos and then go on to devour a four-course meal of web-scale challenges the likes of which no other startup has ever faced.

what happened to the 6pack of beer and a pack of filterless Camel? Sounds like technology has profoundly changed.

What's funny is it took me a moment to figure out if you were being sarcastic, or just reposting a real job :)
I didn't realize at all it was stair until I read your comment.

I viewed it out of context, through the news:yc iPhone app, from "best comments" page, and there's no link to 'parent' post (at least not that I'm aware of).

I really thought it was a genuine job ad. I think this says a lot.

Same here, I had to keep reading until the "huge equity stake that will be massively diluted" to convince myself it's not real!
Thank you for the Outkast reference: "cooler than a polar bear's toe nails."
You sir, should be a writer for The Onion.
As cynical as people are about postings that sound like this, ploys like free PBR for a year result in 3000 applications for a single job.

So anyone who claims that developers are somehow immune to hype probably doesn't realize the hype he/she is actually falling for.

But... Who are you, and what do you do?
May I post this to a jobslist I'm on?
This looks exactly like some of the stuff I have seen on the oatmeal. Brilliantly crafted sir.
Doesn't quite belong on Hacker News, but still hilarious.
Actually, it belongs to the Hacker News, because it shows the type of "job offers" that YC-companies are notoriously posting here.