This is fantastic! Don't be fooled a company has _zero_ allegiance towards you, sure they pay you but when things go south they will drop you lickity-split. I've seen it done and I've had it done to me once.<p>Employees out there: don't feel guilty about leaving a company, always find what's best for you - not the company.
The article uses an interesting phrase "[BC] has been accused of poaching [employees]".<p>As if competition on the buyer-side of the labor market was morally suspect... Steve Jobs would have approved of the sentiment!
I have no issues with companies courting employees from other companies; it shifts the power balance a bit back towards the individual for a change.<p>I am, however, a little put off by the term "poached", which BigCommerce is actively using in their campaign. It implies the sentiment that these people are simply a quarry being hunted as a prize rather people, of their own free will, deciding that the grass is greener elsewhere. Language matters.
I don't think they're poaching anybody. I'm looking for a new job and this company has been posting the most ridiculous, desperate ads on Craigslist.<p><a href="http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eng/" rel="nofollow">http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eng/</a><p>Y work for 1 startup, work for 50K - Software Eng (PHP, Ruby) Product<p>Are you down with OLTP?- Database Engineer (MySql, Innodb)<p>Are you SaaS-y enough? - System Engineer (Linux, Perl, PHP, Ruby)<p>Are you ob-cess!d?- Front End Engineer (HTML, CSS, Javascript)<p>Engineers: Last day to RSVP here for Happy Hour at our new SoMa digs!<p>Engineers: RSVP here for our Happy Hour at our new SoMa digs!<p><a href="http://sfbay.craigslist.org/web/index100.html" rel="nofollow">http://sfbay.craigslist.org/web/index100.html</a><p>Rich and Sexy- Front End Engineer (HTML, CSS, Javascript)<p>The headlines are horrible.<p>The postings are horrible...<p><pre><code> We are SoMa's hottest new startup and we are building a team of badass engineers to help us take the world's fastest growing e-commerce solution to the next level.
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The image (which doesn't show anyone working) is horrible...<p><a href="http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a605/Bigcommerce/CL-Ad2_zpsc15233da.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a605/Bigcommerce/CL-Ad2_...</a><p>The recruiting video (with swearing!) is horrible...<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uibkWc26MgQ&hd=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uibkWc26MgQ&hd=1</a><p>These guys have been posting this crap nonstop on Craigslist for a while so I'm not surprised at all to see them trolling bus stops.
If someone harassed me while I was waiting for the subway and tried to get me to quit my job, I definitely wouldn't want to work for them. I'd probably go out of my way to never use their product, actually. I don't see how this is any better than the "do you have a minute for ____" clipboard people that prey on tourists for donations/signatures on the sidewalk.
Similar gag from this cartoon on recode yesterday:<p><a href="http://recode.net/2014/04/02/tim-cook-turns-up-the-heat-comic/" rel="nofollow">http://recode.net/2014/04/02/tim-cook-turns-up-the-heat-comi...</a>
The writing on this site seems pretty terrible: <a href="http://www.freshtechapps.com/7-reddit-amas-that-went-horribly-wrong/" rel="nofollow">http://www.freshtechapps.com/7-reddit-amas-that-went-horribl...</a>
<i>The recruiter of Bigcommerce, Steve Donnelly, will ask the guys waiting for the Facebook bus whether they were interested in changing the world of e-commerce. But to his disappointment, many of them replied no.</i><p>Obviously, they are going to reply that in a situation where they are together with their co-workers.
Hmm. Seems like a technique with a very low success rate: out of 1,000 applicants they hired 2? So what's that, a .2% success rate?<p>Seems like there has to be techniques with better success rate than that...