Yesterday, we launched the following page: jobs.useHipster.com
Essentially, we're offering a years worth of PBR, $10,000, and a whole bunch of Hipster swag if we end up hiring someone you refer.
The results are blowing us away. Here are the results of the campaign to date:
Yesterday, we had 12,296 unique visits to our jobs page. So far, 24 hours in, we've gotten 240 applications.
50% of those are for marketing / BD / sales / joke candidates, so not helpful.
40% of the applications are for developers, ranging in quality and location (not right for us, but potentially for others).
However, 10% of the applicants (so about 25 of them) are A+ candidates - people from our competitors, and from Google, Twitter, SalesForce, Oracle, AOL, and other top startups. All 20 of these people are seemingly eager to join.
Getting these 20 people into interviews would have cost hundreds of thousands in recruiter's fees, and we did it for free.
If you have questions about how we did this, feel free to email me at Doug (at) useHipster.com