paulmay

Our team has been using Ideon's SitOnIt TR2 task chair for many years and it's a great chair. Before we moved to this chair, I'd been sitting on Herman Miller chairs and I had significant back pain. It's been much better since we moved to the TR2. The mid-back version is what we use. We get the multi-function add-on for it as well (seat back tilt, tension control, back height adjustment).

https://chairbuilder.sitonit.net//#Task/TR2/_/config

The prices listed on their website are much higher than you'll pay if you buy through a store that offers workplace design services. Finding a place that sells them was way harder to figure out then it needed to be, but we finally figured out that the best way to do it was to contact the sales rep for our region. You can find the rep for your region on this page and they'll point you to a retailer.

https://www.sitonit.net/contact/replocate.html

We posted on HN in November and it was very effective (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6653752). The volume of candidates that came from the HN post was much smaller than other channels, but the quality of candidates was much higher than all the other channels.

Here are the numbers we saw:

HN - 12 candidates total, 7 made it to the initial phone interview and 3 made it to a full interview....we made one offer and he accepted (and he's awesome).

Stackoverflow - 28 candidates, 9 initial phone interviews, 2 full interviews, no offers.

Indeed - 40 candidates, 6 phone interviews, none of them made it to a full interview.

Craigslist - 6 candidates, 2 phone interviews, neither of them made it to a full interview.

Two other thoughts...

I think the reason that HN worked so well for us is that we we took a very targeted approach...before posting, we spent a lot of time thinking through exactly what we were looking for and what we thought made working at BuzzStream a unique opportunity for the right person. We wrote a positioning statement for the job that we used as the starting point for our post. Getting the message right was critical.

The fact that we don't mind bringing on remote people makes things a lot easier.

BuzzStream (http://buzzstream.com) –Austin, TX, will consider remote for the right person

WHO WE ARE: We’re a small SaaS company based in downtown Austin that’s growing fast and that’s built a product that our customers love (http://storify.com/paulmay/buzzstream-twitter-props) We have over a thousand paying customers, our annual revenue is $1M+ and it’s doubling every year.

WHAT WE DO: BuzzStream helps marketers find and build relationships with influencers to drive traffic and build brands. Our customers include some of the most well-known brands in the world and many, many digital agencies.

We’ve just scratched the surface of the things we can do to help our customers, and we think we can grow at a much faster rate if we keep delivering on our roadmap. We need your help getting there.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR: We’re looking for mid to senior level software engineers, but we’re much less concerned about the specific level of experience than we are in finding people with the right attitude, ability to learn, and approach to solving problems. Part of our team works remotely, and we’re open to remote work for this position for the right person.

Our app is written in Java, deployed on Amazon’s cloud and utilizes several open source dependencies. Expert knowledge of Java and Linux are required. Experience with AWS and modern javascript technologies is a plus.

BuzzStream may be a good fit for you if...

* You want to work at a place where virtually everything you work on impacts the business and you know exactly how everything you build helps the customer.

* You don’t want to be pigeon-holed as “the guy/girl who works on the [XYZ] part of the product.” You’ll be working on every part of the product and you’ll constantly be learning.

* It’s really important to you to work on a team where every person cares deeply about building great software that solves real problems. You have no use for bureaucracy, pointless meetings, or team members that provide limited value but succeed as a result of fake hustle and strong political skills.

* You really want to learn what it takes to build a startup, but you’d rather not learn through the “I learned what not to do” method. We’ve made plenty of mistakes, but we’re past the stage of trying to figure out how to build a successful business.

If this sounds like something you’re interested in, I’d love to hear from you. Please send me a resume, along with a note telling me a bit about yourself and why you’re interested in BuzzStream. You can reach me (Paul May, co-founder) at careers@buzzstream.com.