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I know where you are! Can you guess where I am?

  * 1.5 blocks away from DIFFERENT delicious Indian food
  * 2.5 blocks from Sprout
  * 3.5 blocks from Venezuelan coffee
nice ageism - italics theirs...

"You're working around highly energetic, incredibly passionate, young people - our average age is 25."

Yeah, I loved the ageism too. Honestly, reminds me a sweatshop. A place where they hire young mediocre devs and just burns through them. You can pay them less, but get them to work exceptionally hard.

I can't think of a job ad that has made me not want to work at a company as much as this one has, in a long time.

It's possible that "young" is a euphemism for a lifestyle that's either party-centric or bohemian. However, since I've worked with shops that actually are bohemian, age really doesn't matter. 45-year old hippies, dads that occasionally winter in France. Pulse's about page really does look very young; maybe a warning to those looking for more traditional workplace ideology.

Like you said, it probably means sweatshop.

It's no euphemism when they went on and added that the average age is 25.
"half a block to delicious Indian food, a block to Sprout salads and two blocks to Venezuelan coffee"

..and you'd better be happy with them, because you'll work so much you won't see anything else.

(And no pancake breakfast?)

It looks like their team is a bunch of a stanford MS grads and phds, so probably not mediocre. http://www.alphonsolabs.com/team
I'm sure the executive team will be grads from top-tier schools with good GPAs. But they're not interested in hiring people with the credentials they've achieved themselves, or people who might know better. They're looking for cheap hardworking undifferentiated labor -- at least that's my takeaway from the ad.
Mentioning the average age is useful information. I read it more like a warning than discrimination. Now that I'm old, I don't want to be around 25 year olds, unless they are also attractive women.
Maybe they should have noted the average attractiveness and current relationship status of the staff as well?
As a former-25-year-old-man I'm offended by your sexism.
Ageism in tech is rampant. If you replace age with race, it will become immediately obvious why this is discriminatory:

> You're working around highly energetic, incredibly passionate, white people - almost everyone in our team has European roots.

Doesn't sound so good, does it?

That said, it's probably an oversight and they didn't mean it in a malicious way.

I would agree that it's likely not malicious, but it was a telling mistake.

And it's been removed from the page now.

Thanks for the feedback. We have made edits to our post.

We'd like to apologize for any perceived age bias in the blog post. We merely wanted to provide information about the team that potential applicants would be working with. Our goal is to hire the best and brightest and obviously potential applicant's age is irrelevant and will not be considered in any way.

I found this rather amusing:

"We don't care much about your college, your major or your GPA."

we don't care much? I daresay this is the first time these people have ever applied or recruited for jobs..