New Views on Recruitment
Great. So how many people are at the company now? Soujanya Bhumkar: We are right now around 34 full timers who we actually call as more than full time, and Austin and Kevin are all the time. Then we have another big gang of about 25 interns who we call as Party Teammates. I can see actually, second row here, RJ, Richard and all these guys are all from the Party Team. So we’ve leveraged the student horsepower and we've blended the two in terms of experience plus innovation and raw energy and condition energy to really drive innovation and collaboration. Tina Seelig: OK. So I know I got a chance to talk to you about this recruiting process that I think is brilliant. How many students in the room have been touched by Cooliris' recruiting efforts? Just a handful of you. Soujanya Bhumkar: Not many. You suck! Tina Seelig: Listen there's a few opportunity here. I have to tell you, I would like Josh to tell a little bit the story here because when I met you, you had just started Cooliris. And one of the biggest challenges, of course it was during a big, I guess maybe we'll call it another bubble, the Bubble Echo. And it was really hard for you to recruit people. You were pulling your hair out trying to figure out, "How do I get really, really talented students to come to Cooliris?" And you ended up turning the assumptions upside down and doing some very creative things. Maybe you could tell us a little bit about that. Josh Schwarzapel: Sure. So there's really two paths for recruiting. One is recruiting full time engineers and the other was recruiting interns. On the full time side, what we really learned is you hear it everywhere people say, "A players, hire A players." And you've probably heard it at every ETL and no one ever says, "OK, so how do you hire A players?" And for us, we learned and we'd bring people in, we'd walk them in, we'd have them interview and every interview we would say, "We're doing this great stuff but we can't tell you and it's goi...
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