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Men wanted for hazardous journey: AdGrok (YC S10) is hiring.

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Re: Men wanted for hazardous journey: AdGrok (YC S10) is hiring.

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Post by tomjen3 »

siculars wrote: post #2

"This isn’t some BS social media thing that injects dancing pigs into your Facebook newsfeed." Lol. Great help wanted ad. They should all be like this.

Yeah, this is definitely one of the better help wanted ads, but it is a blatant rip-of.

Or Scott has joined y combinator, which would be even more awesome

Re: Men wanted for hazardous journey: AdGrok (YC S10) is hiring.

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Post by antongm »

varaon wrote: post #3

Nice, but you'd be much better off with "Good men and women wanted for hazardous journey." There may be statistically fewer women in tech, but you'll never hear from them with a title like that!

The headliner is an apocryphal quote from Ernest Shackleton, leader of a doomed but famous Antarctic expedition in 1914.

Nothing about the current state of tech was implied, nor about our desired employee pool. Obviously we welcome one and all.

Re: Men wanted for hazardous journey: AdGrok (YC S10) is hiring.

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Post by limedaring »

antongm wrote: post #7
varaon wrote: post #3

Nice, but you'd be much better off with "Good men and women wanted for hazardous journey." There may be statistically fewer women in tech, but you'll never hear from them with a title like that!

The headliner is an apocryphal quote from Ernest Shackleton, leader of a doomed but famous Antarctic expedition in 1914. Nothing about the current state of tech was implied, nor about our desired employee pool. Obviously we welcome one and all.

Don't think it's obvious, if you just look at the headline. Is the integrity of the quote more important than looking non-biased against women programmers?
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