Startup Uses Eggs to Poach Employees from Facebook, Google

This is fantastic! Don&#x27;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&#x27;ve seen it done and I&#x27;ve had it done to me once.<p>Employees out there: don&#x27;t feel guilty about leaving a company, always find what&#x27;s best for you - not the company.

The article uses an interesting phrase &quot;[BC] has been accused of poaching [employees]&quot;.<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 &quot;poached&quot;, 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&#x27;t think they&#x27;re poaching anybody. I&#x27;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfbay.craigslist.org&#x2F;eng&#x2F;</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:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfbay.craigslist.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;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&#x27;s hottest new startup and we are building a team of badass engineers to help us take the world&#x27;s fastest growing e-commerce solution to the next level. </code></pre> The image (which doesn&#x27;t show anyone working) is horrible...<p><a href="http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a605/Bigcommerce/CL-Ad2_zpsc15233da.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i1286.photobucket.com&#x2F;albums&#x2F;a605&#x2F;Bigcommerce&#x2F;CL-Ad2_...</a><p>The recruiting video (with swearing!) is horrible...<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uibkWc26MgQ&amp;hd=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=uibkWc26MgQ&amp;hd=1</a><p>These guys have been posting this crap nonstop on Craigslist for a while so I&#x27;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&#x27;t want to work for them. I&#x27;d probably go out of my way to never use their product, actually. I don&#x27;t see how this is any better than the &quot;do you have a minute for ____&quot; clipboard people that prey on tourists for donations&#x2F;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;recode.net&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;02&#x2F;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freshtechapps.com&#x2F;7-reddit-amas-that-went-horribl...</a>

This may be a catchy way to make your company known, but I imagine you&#x27;re only getting those who were thinking of leaving anyway.

More like, startup uses eggs to get free media coverage. The eggs do nothing to help recruiting.

Those are not good enemies to make... seeing as though they probably drive well over half of your network&#x27;s traffic.

Like the &#x27;poached&#x27; campaign, dislike the misspelling of &#x27;employess&#x27; in the article&#x27;s headline.

<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&#x27;s that, a .2% success rate?<p>Seems like there has to be techniques with better success rate than that...

Now that&#x27;s what I call a hack. Bravo!

Nothing wrong with this at all.

Egg sandwiches ... yuck !