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Re:Fred Wilson on Indeed on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @08:38PM (#4573598)
Who?
Re:Pricing is hard. We need your help. on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @08:21PM (#4573536)
Slow down or you'll burn up on reentry. Start with Amway.
Re:Pricing is hard. We need your help. on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @07:10PM (#4573248)
I won't hesitate to call someone out on BS salary/compensation "data".
Re:Which colleges help grads snare top salaries? on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @04:47PM (#4572576)
Citing Payscale? That's somewhere between desperate and useless.
Re:Job search site Indeed.com acquired by Recruit Co. Ltd on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @10:47AM (#4570603)
Fred who and AVwhat?

The posters sent that site's credibility down the drain years ago. Good riddance.

Re:Job search site Indeed.com acquired by Recruit Co. Ltd on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @10:42AM (#4570569)
I was referring to credibility not traffic.
Re:Job search site Indeed.com acquired by Recruit Co. Ltd on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @07:58AM (#4569847)
Indeed.com was pretty much trash anyway. Maybe they can sell it as a write-off
Pass - the partnership with Nissan is the turn off.
Re:Adobe Edge Web Fonts on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @07:50AM (#4569814)
It's fonts and a pageful of bitter people who cannot figure them out.
Re:Business Tech becomes sexy again on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @01:30AM (#4568768)
It's about time the tech sector got respect again.
Re:Quit My Job For Consulting: Two Months Later on Monday September 24, 2012 @10:11PM (#4568158)
This place really needs a downvote feature to quickly call BS on the ficticious salary information that occasionally pops up.
Re:Quit My Job For Consulting: Two Months Later on Monday September 24, 2012 @10:08PM (#4568148)
It's for adults- perhaps a paper route is more your speed.
Re:Ask HN: How do you evaluate an equity opportunity? on Monday September 24, 2012 @09:51PM (#4568111)
Same as they would for any other company.
So what's the link to the needle in the haystack?
Citation needed.
I have a low tolerance for BS.
Re:Please stop with the video tutorials on Monday September 24, 2012 @09:42PM (#4568073)
Go away troll.
Re:The GitHub hiring experience on Monday September 24, 2012 @09:35PM (#4568053)
This is what happens when you keep HR out of the hiring process.
Re:Why Your Customers Would Be Happier If You Charged More on Friday September 21, 2012 @08:38PM (#4556645)
Got 2 paragraphs in - realized author lives in fantasyland.
Re:Why You Should Apply to TechStars Cloud on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @09:05AM (#4543317)
Spam.
Re:The secret to hiring a designer on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @08:59AM (#4543298)
Provide clear requirements - No Provide realistic schedule - No. Provide decent pay - No.

"Make sure you like the designer’s style so much that you would trust them to create a design for you without any input."

Right, just make sure they be stylin' yo!

What a load of crap.

If companies paid that much then unemployment would be next to nil.

Re:Walking out of an interview on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @11:05AM (#4448905)
Walking out isn't rude. It's a reality check for the HR and management that something isn't kosher.

I've walked out of interviews after finding the usual bait-n-switch techniques regarding position description, expectations, travel requirements, compensation, work conditions, .. just to name a few.

Do I expect HR/management to get a clue - not really, it's not my job to further their problem solving ability.

Re:Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers on Monday August 13, 2012 @01:15PM (#4376918)
Yes. We have some on sight, for a government agency, as part of a government contract, for which we are the prime.

Additionally, we've taken people from help desk, put them on the server team, then placed them doing host based security and paid them upper 40's (before taxes).

Clearance level is TS.

Re:Released footage of the police raid on the Kim Dotcom mansion on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @12:44PM (#4356546)
The raid was written by Michael Bay.
Re:Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @11:04AM (#4355918)
Sadly I am serious. It helps to explain our 150%+ turnover rate at 34 months into a 60 month contract, but high turnover is good for profits.
Re:Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @11:02AM (#4355900)
5% raise - who's giving that much?

Corporate norms are 1.5% to 2.5% for the talented.

Re:Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @11:01AM (#4355890)
Because it is easy and you're just being dense.
Re:Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @11:00AM (#4355886)
10+ years of working in the DC area supporting the Columbia customer, McLean customer and the Quantico customer for a variety of companies and still no one paying close to the rates you're claiming. It obvious you can't distinguish between the billing rate and a salary rate.
Re:Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @02:53PM (#4351637)
Benefits: Trying being assigned a practitioner closest to the work location so you'll miss as little work as possible; or benefits that are project dependent (some projects support a 401k, some don't)

High salary: 30K starting with sr devs going for around 60K to 70K

Flexible hours: 730 to 430 M-F, with Wednesday onsite support needed from 6pm to 10pm (you are allowed up show up no later than 9AM on Thursday)

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