On 10/19/05, jfry <jeff.fry / gmail.com> wrote:
> Aemca, Zed, and Infocom, thanks for your replies.
>
> Zed & Aemca, I suspected I might hear that your first thought was that
> this was a job with evil spammer scum. That was the first question I
> asked before I started here, and I thought that I'd written an ad that
> would disuade that...but clearly I was wrong. Anyway, it turns out that
> our customers are mostly good (& neutral) guys who send mail that
> people ask for it - folks like Sun, IBM, NASA, Habitat for Humanity &
> the American Federation of Teachers. When I interview candidates I
> always ask what they think about working for a company that sends large
> volumes of email. The best applicants almost always want to see that we
> are not doing something seedy. When someone replies that they have no
> morals about who they work for that's pretty much the end of the
> interview for me - I don't really want to hire someone who's decisions
> aren't guided by some sort of ethics (doesn't need to be the same
> ethical compass as mine, but I figure that if you are willing to build
> software that screws people, you are also probably perfectly happy to
> screw your coworkers).
>
> Anyway, I'll definitely rewrite the ad to make it clear that we aren't
> scum. FYI, we are also a very solid company - 11 year old and
> comfortably profitable for 10 of those, but still small enough and
> agile enough that the team of coders is a real pleasure to work with. I
> truly recommend the company as a place to work and would be happy to
> answer questions if anyone is considering it and wants to know more.
>
> Thanks again for the feedback,
> Jeff
>
>
>

What you just wrote is probably the best job ad you could have written.
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