I love creative recruitment campaigns! And Hipster, a tech start-up in San Francisco, has been successful in attracting promising Mobile Engineers and Ruby Engineers, coming from companies like Google, Twitter, SalesForce, Oracle and AOL, to its company with a great referral campaign and an special attention-getting offer; $10,000 in cash and a year’s supply of PBR beer. The company is also offering a a hip bicycle, authentic skinny jeans, a pair of Buddy Holly glasses, a pair of worn boots and a mustache-grooming service.
About Hipster
Hipster is building a fun way to uncover the vast amount of information about real-world locations that isn’t yet available online. Based in SOMA, San Francisco, and founded in 2010 by Doug Ludlow, Ethan Czahor, and Steffen Hoffman, Hipster is tackling a really large problem in a really large market in a really unique way.