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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017) by mocatta on Monday January 02, 2017 @04:34PM (#13304747)
Sincere apologies to your friend. At that point we were bootstrapping, and had been for a year. We had a fundraise coming together but the amount and timing were at that point unknown, hence lack of specificity regarding salary early on. We have since closed funding so things have been firmed up.

As for on-site vs remote we've always been happy to do remote for the right candidate but prefer on-site. We have in the past and continue to have a few remote employees.

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017) by hayd on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @10:38PM (#13371559)
"bootstrapping" is a shitty excuse for changing the salary expectations mid-way through the process.
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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017) by mocatta on Thursday January 12, 2017 @08:15PM (#13387666)
From the perspective of a couple of engineer founders who went back and forth between two drastically different termsheets over the course of a few months of negotiations, it was either stick with a figure that relied on a deal we were leaning against, or share the most accurate picture at that point in time. It seems hard to justify acting differently, given the situation.
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