| @wedtm co-founder of streak.com here, we apologize that the job posting came off as offensive - as you said in your post it was totally unintentional. We would love some constructive discussion on where we went wrong and how we can improve. Re-reading the job post again (deleted but we have a copy) using your comments as a lens, I can see how the title may come off as abrasive. However, in our actual post - we use competitors as a way to contrast and illustrate what our beliefs are - not to belittle them. We actually disagree with posting requirements for our positions, mainly because there aren't any fast and easy rules that would make someone a good fit vs. not a good fit. That's mostly determined by meeting and talking - all we can really do is try to attract people who are interested in our space and beliefs. Your other point on posting the actual salary we are offering is a tough one. Its not tough because we don't want to be transparent, rather, we're such a young company that we don't have a set role, skill set or persona we are hiring for. Compensation is LARGELY dependent on the applicants personal situation (young with high risk tolerance implies more equity, less compensation vs someone older with family and mortgage). We're totally transparent with all of our applicants once they've contacted us. We are totally open to your help on figuring out a better way to do job postings given the above constraints. We've been a part of the HN community for a while and definitely don't want to offend others here. [edit] Happy to chat over email too: aleem at streak |
Regardless, Streak seems like an interesting product.