Entrepreneurial Apprentice to Eccentric Millionaire @ Fun Ecom Co | Great People & Flexible Hours
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Job Description
- Is learning new things like crack to you
- Is the prospect of entrepreneurship exciting but also pretty scary so youve opt for safer choices
- Do you thrive in a high-stress environment filled with political infighting bureaucracy and corporate nonsense
If so then we are the place for you except you might hate how nice of a company we have - filled with happy generally competent people that dont put up with jerks. Frankly it makes me sick how nice everyone is.
We are remote full time have very flexible hours people are judged by their output not by how much they suck up to the boss and turnover is super low because the company believes that happy employees happy customers happy bank account. Simply disgusting if you ask me.
--Is this a real job ad--
Yup! Amazingly enough we actually paid money to post this on a bunch of different job sites. And its not even a pyramid scheme! Plus get this: the owner just started paying our 70ish employees with money instead of Pizza Hut coupons - were big time people.
Our careers page is actually worth checking out to learn more about how insane we are (sidenote: it won a web design award in 1993 - were a pretty big deal):
check out our reviews on Google Glassdoor or Indeed to see that its not just the founders mother who says were cool.
--What do you guys do--
We do a lot of different things these days including selling awesome consumer products (these are just a small sampling):
- Bad Parking Cards ( Beverage Barricades ( Child Chucker ( this Amazon Pay-Per-Click agency: (were really really good at PPC)
And we will soon be launching a SaaS product for inventory management.
We are doing our best to grow rapidly every year and its our intention to continue that for as long as possible which means we need good people to help us keep up with the growth.
--What is your company like--
1. You Can Be Yourself. You dont have to put on a fake professional face. You can just be yourself. You can talk smack to the CEO (highly encouraged) and no one will think anything of it. You dont have to dress up or use formal language or pretend to be something youre not - you can just be you.
2. Major Opportunities for Career Growth. We are not trying to just be a small business. We plan to be doing $100 million annually in the next few years. We promote quickly once we identify talent. It doesnt matter what your credentials are it matters what you get done.
3. Full Time Remote/Flexible Hours. You will be working from home in your pajamas on your schedule. And we dont care if you work 10 hour days 4 days a week or 6 hours a day and catch up over the weekend. So long as you get a lot of work done were happy campers.
4. Complete Work/Life Balance. If youre routinely working more than 45ish hours youre gonna get a friendly talking-to. We want you to be operating at 100% capacity which means that you need to rest.
5. Strongly Anti-BS. Anybody in the company can (and is expected to) tell the CEO when he is wrong. There are no bureaucratic or BS rules getting in the way of getting work done.
6. No Micro-Management. Once youre trained and have demonstrated you know your stuff we are pretty hands-off. In fact if you need external management to stay on-task and motivated we probably arent the place for you.
7. No Toxic/Incompetent People Allowed. We try very hard to screen out mean or stupid people before they get in but in case they slip through we fire them quickly. You will never have to interact with someone who is an obvious idiot or straight up malicious. No toxic or incompetent people at work - could it really be Yes
8. Supportive Environment. We dont operate via intense stress or unreasonable top-down deadlines. Everyone wants you to be successful internal politics are at a minimum here.
9. Lots of Raises. We do our absolute best to get ahead of things and give raises preemptively so you dont have to ask for one. Its not unusual at all for someone to receive 2 raises per year.
10. Well Invest in Your Training. We want you and everyone to get better constantly. Youll be learning new things all the time and are strongly encouraged to invest time every day to learn new things improve your system/work process and just generally try to make your life easier.
11. 4-6 Weeks Vacation. We 100% want you to recharge so having plenty of time off is absolutely worth it.
12. Paid Maternity/Paternity Leave. Weve even started letting people skip meetings during labor!
13. Self-Funded So We Can Do Whats Right for Us. We dont have to answer to anyone but ourselves so we can make the right decision for the long-term health of the company vs trying to get big too fast or cut corners to appease some selfish investor.
--What are your companys values--
--OK so Ive read like 8 dang pages about you guys. Will you tell me what the actual job is--
No.
--Wait... What--
OK fine. Super short version:
Learning like crazy in order to set you up to be an internal entrepreneur (intrapreneur) to take on some business opportunity.
To prepare for entrepreneurship though you are going to become a generalist. Our best people are almost all generalists who can tackle any problem thrown at them. I want you to become one of them.
Another way of describing things is that youre going to become the ultimate problem solver.
Were gonna test you teach you and put you on progressively harder projects as you gain skills and demonstrate capability. We might eventually ask you to:
- Go find a new vendor for X
- Recommend a solution for expanding our warehouse space
- Figure out the basics of marketing channel Y so we can hire for it
- Build a complex Google Sheets tool
- Create a video for product Z
- Launch our products on Amazon UK
- Figure out who we should talk to get into retail
Things like that. There wont generally be an SOP - youre just gonna have to figure it out on your own.
The ability to figure things out independently at a high level is a rare one and the more people we have in the company with the ability the better off well be.
The ultimate goal is to give you a well-rounded education and then throw you at some mutually beneficial entrepreneurial opportunity that excites you.
--Why are you doing this--
Hiring really good people is really really hard. Weve tried hiring senior people in the past and have failed almost every time. Whats worked in the past is hiring junior/mid-level folks training them and letting them run free. So we formalized this into an official apprentice program which has worked out wonderfully.
--Why do you need internal entrepreneurs--
Video of our founder explaining the situation/opportunity some more.
--Do I need experience--
We expect you to have a minimum of 70 years of experience (120 preferred).
Oh you havent lived two lifetimes eating and breathing business 24/7/365 Who TF do you think you are reading this job description You complete buffoon.
Oh you havent been directly involved in at least two (preferably three) World Wars Youre not even qualified to operate our coffee machine you sentient potato.
Oh you didnt observe the Big Bang as it happened Get out of here you pirated copy of Windows 95.
I might throw up from your arrogance. The hubris to think that you an absolute fool could apply for an apprentice position... sickening. Im literally shaking right now.
Also no you dont need any experience.
We want special people and dont give AF what their background is. Most of our best people did nothing remotely related to their current roles so if youve never done anything like this before dont sweat it. We hire 100x more for potential than existing knowledge.
The Big Bang requirement still stands though.
--Do I need a college degree--
You just need to be awesome.
--Is this just for beginners--
Definitely not. We have amazing apprentices of all ages and experience levels and this is no exception.
--Are there any geographic restrictions--
As long as you are in a country that doesnt have active sanctions from the US government we are interested. Our founder isnt known for respecting the government much but they have all the guns so
--This sounds completely ridiculous and fake--
Definitely fair. Check us out online and decide for yourself.
Spoiler: Its not fake were just led by a crazy person (he insists on eccentric but we all know what that really means).
--This sounds pretty good though Im still skeptical that this isnt a pyramid scheme.--
You sound just like the tax authorities!
--That doesnt resolve any of my fears but what do I need to do to apply--
Please submit your information on the following page to apply:
promise to respond within 5-10 business days even if our answer is No.
There will be multiple steps in this process FYI including a long written application interviews with potentially a few different people and paid work test(s). Hiring the right people is really hard and very expensive if we do it poorly so we have to front-load the process. Im sorry about that and thank you for sticking with us.
Once youre in our pipeline though I would anticipate giving you a final answer within a few weeks depending on how it goes. We definitely dont want to string you along and as long as you do what we ask we promise to tell you yes or no and to not just ghost you (like everybody I match with on Tinder).
Thank you for your time and interest and I hope we can work together soon!
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