"a significant uptick in the number of parties, hot girls roaming bars trying to chat with any guy that looks like he might be an engineer and looking for a job"

That is a pretty bad strategy to hire from founder's perspective. Will reasonably smart engineers like these strategies?

On a related note, a friend of mine was telling me that he saw someone (on OkCupid) mentioning about contacting her only if you are engineer since her startup is hiring engineers. Ha!