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<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Ian Kynnersley wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div dir="ltr">Chris,<div><br></div><div style="">I hadn't read that. I was posting on behalf of The Amazings who are a sister company to Sidekick where I work.</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Thanks for bringing that to my attention. It has made me really angry as I have been quite vocal in my support of diversity in the tech world and have tried as hard as I can to be as inclusive as possible in my own attempts to recruit.</div>
<div style=""><br></div><div style="">I am sure that this is mostly down to being badly worded rather than malicious. The Amazings team is roughly 50% female and would definitely welcome applications from anyone who wants to get involved in what they're doing. Sadly, stuff like this is likely to have the exact opposite effect.<br>
</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">I will do what I can to ensure appropriate changes are made.</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Ian</div></div><div><br><br><div>On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Chris Mear <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chrismear@gmail.com" target="_blank">chrismear@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1.25em"><span style="font-family:'.HelveticaNeueUI';white-space:nowrap"><a href="http://www.theamazings.com/pages/about#team" target="_blank">http://www.theamazings.com/pages/about#team</a></span><font><span style="line-height:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><b><br>
</b></span></font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1.25em"><b style="line-height:normal;font-size:small">"CTO:</b><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);line-height:normal;font-size:small"> </span><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);line-height:normal;font-size:small">This will almost certainly be a man (a female CTO would be too much to wish for). "</span><br>
</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1.25em"><font><span style="line-height:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><b>"Software Engineer:</b> There's a (minuscule) chance this person might be a woman."<span></span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1.25em"><font><span style="line-height:normal">Seriously?</span></font></p><span><font color="#888888"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1.25em"><font><span style="line-height:normal">Chris</span></font></p>
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On Tuesday, 12 February 2013, Ian Kynnersley wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">
<p>Hello LRUG people,</p><p>Another job posting! I think this is the first one today so hopefully you will all look kindly upon it.</p><p>The Amazings is a platform for over 50s to share skills with the world: <a href="http://www.theamazings.com/" target="_blank">http://www.theamazings.com/</a>.<br>
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<p>Reinventing retirement and education is what we're interested in.<br></p>
<p>We've had interest to expand nationally and internationally, and within that context, we're looking to grow a solid technical team. <br></p>
<p>If you get excited by making products that solve proper problems, in a fast moving startup, then get in touch. <br></p>
<p>We're looking for a senior and a mid-weight engineer to join the team and are open to temporary or permanent hires. <br></p><div>It's a Rails app on a fairly standard Heroku stack (Postgres, etc). </div>
<div><br></div><div>Give me a shout if you're interested.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Ian</div><div><br></div><div>Product Lead, Sidekick Studios</div><div><a href="http://sidekickstudios.net/" target="_blank">http://sidekickstudios.net/</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/kpopper" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/kpopper</a><br>
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