Pulse is hiring web and iOS engineers
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Pulse is hiring web and iOS engineers
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Re: Pulse is hiring web and iOS engineers
#2I know where you are! Can you guess where I am?
* 1.5 blocks away from DIFFERENT delicious Indian food
* 2.5 blocks from Sprout
* 3.5 blocks from Venezuelan coffeeRe: Pulse is hiring web and iOS engineers
#3What does pulse do/make?
Note: I'm asking because it's annoying when a company's blog doesn't have an obvious link back to their main/corporate site.
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#4What does pulse do/make? Note: I'm asking because it's annoying when a company's blog doesn't have an obvious link back to their main/corporate site.
Sorry about that. We make a visual newsreader called Pulse for iPad, iPhone and Android.
Here's a link to our product page: http://www.alphonsolabs.com/products
Our main site is here: http://www.alphonsolabs.com/
Re: Pulse is hiring web and iOS engineers
#5nice ageism - italics theirs...
"You're working around highly energetic, incredibly passionate, young people - our average age is 25."
Re: Pulse is hiring web and iOS engineers
#6nice ageism - italics theirs... "You're working around highly energetic, incredibly passionate, young people - our average age is 25."
This ad is actually illegal under FEHA, isn't it?
Re: Pulse is hiring web and iOS engineers
#7nice ageism - italics theirs... "You're working around highly energetic, incredibly passionate, young people - our average age is 25."
Yeah, I loved the ageism too. Honestly, reminds me a sweatshop. A place where they hire young mediocre devs and just burns through them. You can pay them less, but get them to work exceptionally hard.
I can't think of a job ad that has made me not want to work at a company as much as this one has, in a long time.
Re: Pulse is hiring web and iOS engineers
#8nice ageism - italics theirs... "You're working around highly energetic, incredibly passionate, young people - our average age is 25."
Yeah, I loved the ageism too. Honestly, reminds me a sweatshop. A place where they hire young mediocre devs and just burns through them. You can pay them less, but get them to work exceptionally hard. I can't think of a job ad that has made me not want to work at a company as much as this one has, in a long time.
It's possible that "young" is a euphemism for a lifestyle that's either party-centric or bohemian. However, since I've worked with shops that actually are bohemian, age really doesn't matter. 45-year old hippies, dads that occasionally winter in France. Pulse's about page really does look very young; maybe a warning to those looking for more traditional workplace ideology.
Like you said, it probably means sweatshop.
Re: Pulse is hiring web and iOS engineers
#9nice ageism - italics theirs... "You're working around highly energetic, incredibly passionate, young people - our average age is 25."
This ad is actually illegal under FEHA, isn't it?
Not exactly sure, I wouldn't want to chance it since California actually has some additions to the federal laws.
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#10Ageism in tech is rampant. If you replace age with race, it will become immediately obvious why this is discriminatory:
> You're working around highly energetic, incredibly passionate, white people - almost everyone in our team has European roots.
Doesn't sound so good, does it?
That said, it's probably an oversight and they didn't mean it in a malicious way.