Silicon Valley Hiring Perks: Meals, iPads and a Cubicle for Spot

Re:Silicon Valley Hiring Perks: Meals, iPads and a Cubicle f... by wyclif on Saturday March 26, 2011 @05:01AM (#2371691)

you know they’d do great in a small environment working a million hours a week

Erm, no. That may be just great for a spotty kid in his first or second job, but someone seasoned with a wife and kids isn't really going to be thrilled with putting in startup hours for an iPad2, or the kind of stock options startups are offering. This is another reason why they're having trouble recruiting: the small pool of young people with few responsibilities that have the right skillset.

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Re:Silicon Valley Hiring Perks: Meals, iPads and a Cubicle f... by mtoddh on Saturday March 26, 2011 @07:23AM (#2371842)

Looking over the jobs pages of some of these companies it's interesting to note how many of them expect you to make your new job there "the primary focus of your life". For instance, go google for

"primary focus of your life" intitle:jobs

and you get:

Quora: "You should be ready to make this startup the primary focus of your life"

Udemy: "You should be ready to make this startup the primary focus of your life"

GoPollGo: "you should be ready to make working on GoPollGo the primary focus of your life."

Bubbli: "you should be ready to make Bubbli the primary focus of your life."

So yeah, probably not a good fit for someone with a wife and kids.

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Re:Silicon Valley Hiring Perks: Meals, iPads and a Cubicle f... by GBond on Thursday March 31, 2011 @02:17PM (#2392870)

Wow. Although giving your life this is implied, I never caught that that statement was so ubiquitous for recent startup job postings.

I hope this turn into the new job postings fax pau of "rockstar/ninja" proportions.

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