This is Doug, Hipster's CEO. I'm happy to share the results of the campaign (if you're interested).<p>Yesterday, we launched the following page:
jobs.useHipster.com<p>Essentially, we're offering a years worth of PBR, $10,000, and a whole bunch of Hipster swag if we end up hiring someone you refer.<p>The results are blowing us away. Here are the results of the campaign to date:<p>Yesterday, we had 12,296 unique visits to our jobs page.
So far, 24 hours in, we've gotten 240 applications.<p>50% of those are for marketing / BD / sales / joke candidates, so not helpful.<p>40% of the applications are for developers, ranging in quality and location (not right for us, but potentially for others).<p>However, 10% of the applicants (so about 25 of them) are A+ candidates - people from our competitors, and from Google, Twitter, SalesForce, Oracle, AOL, and other top startups. All 20 of these people are seemingly eager to join.<p>Getting these 20 people into interviews would have cost hundreds of thousands in recruiter's fees, and we did it for free.<p>If you have questions about how we did this, feel free to email me at Doug (at) useHipster.com