Thursday, March 28

Viral: Jeff Bezos’s first job announcement for Amazon | Digital Trends Spanish


The Internet is a wonderful world to find strange things, such as, for example, what is going viral these days on social networks, the first search notice for programmers of Jeff Bezos for amazon in 1994.

“A Well Capitalized Seattle Company Seeks Unix Developers,” headlines the ad, dated August 22, 1994, 28 years ago.

“A well-capitalized start-up is looking for highly talented C/C++/Unix developers to help pioneer Internet commerce,” the ad continued.

Requirements requested by Bezos in 1994: experience “designing and building large and complex (but maintainable) systems”, as well as the ability to do it “in about a third of the time that most competent people think possible.”

Among the minimum qualifications, it asked for a bachelor’s, master’s or doctorate in computer science or its equivalent. But more emphasis he placed on “top-notch” communication skills, which he described as “essential” to the position. Less important, but valuable, was familiarity with HTML and web servers.

The key detail of the announcement is that “a significant participation in the capital” of the company was offered as part of the compensation.

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