Refer Product/Engineer Gurus, Get $5000 from BetterWorks
Refer Us Your Product/Engineer Friends. Get the Inside Scoop on Why We Work Here and WHy You Should Too.
Yup. You read that right. We’ll give you 5 G’s if we hire someone you refer for one of our product or engineering positions (apply online at jobs.betterworks.com). You will also be the lucky recipient of either ONE (1) free year of BetterWorks services for your company or organization OR; you can have your very own personal BetterWorks account with a $100/mo spending allowance included.
Know someone who might be interested? Here’s how it works.
Step One: Tell a friend/acquaintance/complete stranger to apply for one of our product or engineering positions online at jobs.betterworks.com
Step Two: Make sure they write your name in the referral field.
Step Three: If they get hired, you get paid!
As any hiring manager and start-up knows, finding engineering talent can be tough. We’re competing against Google, Facebook and a million other start-ups out there.
So the question is, why should you or your engineer friend pick us over any other company? What makes BetterWorks so special?
To help explain a little of our secret sauce we snuck into the engineering and product ninja cave and chatted with a few mates for insights on why they joined BetterWorks and what it's like.
Jenny Yee, Director of Product Operations
“I quickly saw the massive product and market potential and I knew I could play a pivotal role and have a major impact on the development and success of the product. There is an opportunity here to be an active part of building something big and not be one of 50 engineers in the machine. And it wasn’t just the product road map that caught my attention, it was also the leadership. I felt this was a solid team able to execute on the big idea. Coming from Google and having spent time in the start-up world, the companies with leaders that are able to execute are the ones who have the greatest success.”
(“KW”) Hwang, Senior Software Engineer
“I moved to LA from San Jose with two friends who also joined the BetterWorks engineering team. We’d worked together in the past on a previous company, of which Zao (COO/Co-Founder) had been unofficially advising us. We have a great deal of respect for Zao and when he reached out it carried a lot of weight. When we interviewed with the founders we were blown away by the business plan and the experience of the leadership team. Every question we asked, they answered. In fact, this is the most clear and focused team I’ve worked with. At other companies sometimes directions aren’t clear or you spend time writing code for a project that never comes to light. It feels rewarding to know that what I’m helping to build is going to be used to help millions of people for years to come. There’s also a clear sense of ownership and a huge opportunity to learn. In part, I joined because I wanted that early start-up experience and first-hand look at how companies are built from the ground up, especially by a team with a proven track record. If I start my own company in the future I’ll have best practices from my experience here and a strong network to rely on.”
Sizhao “Zao” Yang, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder
“One of my responsibilities as COO and co-founder is to build and lead the engineering and product team with George (Ishii, CPO and co-founder). At the end of the day, you want to be with a winner. Only fifteen companies a year become billion dollar companies. Engineers that I know that love start-ups are always looking to find the company that’s going to be the billion-dollar player, which we fully plan to be. By joining BetterWorks you get the salary and the equity but also the opportunity to learn from some of the best people in the practice - not to mention scaling up into a rocket ship. You can’t get that in a mom and pop shop nor an established large company. Unlike the uncertainty of the majority of early stage start-ups, this team has done it before. We want to create products that people love and use. At BetterWorks we prefer to work with full stack developers and believe in engineering autonomy. We have a very structured road map which means engineers won’t be pulled all over the place with last minute projects of whims of the executive team. Everything we do is done to ensure we have the highest quality to attract the very best and that we’re creating an environment where people feel appreciated, motivated and rewarded.”
George Ishii, Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder
“I believe that success follows people, not necessarily ideas or money. Joining the right start-up means entering at the ground floor and being an integral part of the growth and success of a company. The BetterWorks environment is unique. You’ll be working alongside folks who have done it before and know what it takes to build and scale. You will be challenged to solve problems that haven’t been tackled before, which is much more interesting than building another location-based social network iphone app that takes pictures. We’re a product-driven company and are hyper-focused on creating the right product and user experience. Our product road map is well planned and intentional. We make decisions as a team to ensure we’re not taking orders from a single person. It can drive people crazy when companies don’t have a central product vision and UI voice. An established UI voice guides all the decisions we make, from the on-site mascot to the visual appearance and placement of buttons. The result is a harmonious, seamless user experience that you will be proud to be associated with.”
So let’s see...potential candidates can look forward to:
- An experienced leadership team with a proven exit track record
- Joining a billion-dollar-company-in-the-making
- A detailed product and business road map that’s adhered to
- Autonomy and ownership
- A united UI voice; product driven company
- Building a product that helps make people happy
- Managerial opportunities as the company scales
- Consistent team communication and desire for collaboration
- A fun work environment where everyone is focused on tackling a massive market
- Much, much more.
Sounds compelling to us! Did we mention company outings, weekly game nights and your own monthly BetterWorks allowance to spend on the perks most relevant to you.
Engineering Openings:
- Software Engineer
- Payment Software Engineer
- Payments (Fraud) Software Engineer
- PHP Senior Software Engineer
- PHP Software Engineer
- Software Engineer Intern
- Tools (Machine Learning, crowdsourcing) Software Engineer
- Tools Software Engineer
Product:
- Product Designer
- Product Manager
- User Interface UI UX Designer
Full job description and requirements at jobs.betterworks.com.
Specific details:
- You must refer the person in (you can use the email below)...use the above to tell them why it’s awesome to work here.
- That person must list you in the "Who referred you to this position?" field.Remind your friends to fill this field in for credit. And yes, if they apply and forget we can change it but you'll need to let us know prior to hiring about this.
- If more than one person recommends the person, we only pay based on the "Who referred you to this position?" field. If it's honestly two of you recommending the person then you'll need to work out a fee sharing agreementwith that person, not us.
- $5k will be paid for ALL fulltime Engineering & Product positions posted.
- This fee structure may be replaced in the future. There may not be advance notice of this change.
- Payment: You'll be paid $5k after the person has started and worked a full 60 days at the company.
- For the free account, we will contact you about the details before the referred hire’s 60 days to have everything set up. If our service isn’t yet launched in your area, we’ll put your account on hold until we’re in your city. Don’t worry, we’re quickly expanding.
Any other questions, please email info@betterworks.com.
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