Pardot is continuing to hire aggressively. We have added 25+ team members so far this year and plan to add many more before the year is out. We know that tapping into our social graph to find great people has always been the best way for us to build out our team. We have just started a new program to reward anyone in the greater tech community (not only our employees) for referring great employees our way.
The rules are pretty straightforward:
- The referred candidate must actually know you (duh!) and acknowledge that you sent him/her our way. We have a referral slot on our application for the candidate to use.
- You can be a recruiter but the $10,001 would be in lieu of any other remuneration you would normally earn on a placement. It would also not construe any ongoing contract for placement with Pardot.
- This applies only to full-time software engineering positions.
- You can either send an email to jobs@pardot.com with the candidate’s information or the candidate can contact us directly and list you as a reference. If we receive multiple intro contacts for the same candidate, the first one received will win out.
- The $10,001 will be paid out 120 days from the candidate’s start date.
We are also offering a $2,000 referral bonus for all non- software engineering positions (same terms as above). More information is available on our careers page.
Per @dharmesh from @hubspot (see below), our inspiration for this was from SEOmoz and HubSpot who did similar things in their respective markets (Seattle and Boston).
$10,001. You guys crack me up.
Not bothered by the imitation (it being the sincerest form of flattery and all), but disappointed that there wasn’t a simple hat-tip to http://BostonBattle.com for the inspiration. Especially since we’re in different geographies and all.
But, no worries. Best wishes…
Hi Dharmesh, I thought you guys would get a kick out of the extra dollar!
Hardly unique though –
SEOmoz had us both crushed for a while with a $12,000 (to both referral and referrer) bonus:
http://www.seomoz.org/refer-an-engineer
Overstock does this as well with a well-publicized program:
http://www.overstock.com/javajobs
I added a shout out for you at the bottom.
Adam: Thanks for the shout-out. And, for the record, the SEOmoz bonus was also inspired by HubSpot’s (Rand Fishkin’s a good friend).
I had nothing to do with the Overstock one though.
Oh awesome — didn’t know that about SEOmoz. Rand and his team were great at a number of sessions at Dreamforce this year. We took away a lot of great ideas from them in retargeting. Hope they got some great engineers out of the referral program!