Life is grand

RapLeaf is meant to be an online reputation system. Look up a person and find out their reputation.

So it bothers me when a reputation system starts sending out a sickly sweet recruitment email that had me hitting the Spam button in GMail:

Dear Paul,

I have to admit, I’m a beneficiary of Rapleaf’s referral award system. I referred a friend who’s now working here at Rapleaf and the company deposited $5k in my bank account (which coincidentally disappeared by the time I got back from Vegas).

For a kick-ass engineer, we figure $5,000 is nothing…so we up’d it to $10,000. Better yet, $10,007. Its unusual and it’ll catch people’s attention (it got yours i bet). And besides, “10,007” is the first prime number over 10,000…did you know that? (usually only ubergeeks pick up on that…if thats you, lets talk).

If you have a buddy that’s a software engineer, have them check out our jobs page and make sure they mention that you referred them when they apply:

http://blog.rapleaf.com/jobs

Or shoot an email to jobs@rapleaf.com (or reply back directly to me) with their contact info.

Best,

[blanked]

Rapleaf

p.s. – In theory, you could earn $1 billion dollars if you refer 100,000 people we end up hiring. Think about it.

Yes I am a developer but no I am not a moron. Rapleaf is going to hire 100,000 people and send me a billion dollars eh? I’m getting Amway pyramid scheme hallucinations right now.

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