| "No one is looking for" ... sorry, I beg to differ. I just got the following in my inbox a few days ago. --- Hello ____, I stumbled across your profile on LinkedIn and was impressed by your background with (company) as their (tech title). I would love to chat with you about what we are building here at (startup). I am the CTO and one of the co-founders of (startup) - we are a startup with an office in (location) and we are very successful in changing the way companies do business with each other. Our customers are companies like (big companies) and many more. We are looking for help from people like you to scale our product while we grow in terms of data, processing, customers and users. Our infrastructure runs on AWS using Cassandra, MySQL, ActiveMQ, Tomcat and other technologies/services. Most of our code is in Groovy and Java leveraging Jersey, Grails, Spring, Hibernate, .... On the front-end, JQuery, Mootools and other libs and frameworks. In short: We are a fast growing startup that solves real-world business problems for huge companies with an awesome, committed and agile engineering team. If that sounds like something worth talking about I would love to get a few minutes of your time when it fits you best. Hope to hear from you. Cheers, (somebody I've never met) --- He doesn't say "rockstar programmer" in there but he should have. It would have at least brought a smile to my face. Companies _are_ still trying to sucker young kids into this kind of stuff with words like "rockstar," "ninja," "awesome," ... I know how hard it is to find talented people. I suppose an email like that has been finely honed to net the most applicants possible. But if you want _those_ kind of applicants, you're already behind. |