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How Not To Hire An Engineer

by SS at
1:46 am on Saturday 2nd November 13
[berkeley, jobs]

We were forwarded the blurb below. Essentially, build our product for us and we'll take 82% of the equity because we came up with the idea. I was much amused-

HAAS TEAM IN SEARCH OF ENGINEER!

We are a group of 5 Haas students who are currently in a process of developing a p2p mobile app. We have already recruited a team of interns who are eager to start working under the leadership of a new VP of Engineering.

We have skills in marketing, interface design, business development, investment research, and statistical analysis.

New *** venture, ******, seeks Cofounder/VP Engineering to spearhead development of a mobile software platform with peer-to-peer functionality. This is a straightforward project and we are aiming to get an efficiently working prototype completed by the week of Nov 22. We have proof of concept and market research. Now we simply need to build and sell. We are advised by a founder of Berkeley's CET and a venture capitalist, who also teaches at Cal.
Compensation is a 1/6 share of total equity in a pool of five other founders!

You should be passionate about programming, able to demonstrate your skills, and ready to work as a team to grow a successful startup in the sharing economy (i.e. Lyft, AirBnB, ZipCar).

Skills needed:
- demonstrable experience with coding mobile software
- experience with peer-to-peer functionality
- ability to develop application for both Android and iOS
- ability to build and lead a software development team (of interns to start)
- willingness to follow Agile development process
- self-motivated, sense of urgency
- team mentality, results oriented, goal driven
- strong time management skills and ability to commit to co-located work hours
- as cofounder, ability to work in a business development team to grow the company quickly
- excellent communication skills
- true passion for the startup environment and building mobile apps
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