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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2017) on Monday May 01, 2017 @11:00AM (#14238016)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com

Step.com is a salary discovery platform that lets software engineers and product managers find out what companies and experts would pay them. Feedback and compensation estimates are predicted based on anonymized profile data and company criteria. We're looking for an experienced software engineer to help us with the architecture of our systems, coding the frontend and backend, working on our algorithms, and more. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

Read about our analysis on tech salaries across engineering levels at some the major tech companies: https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...

To get in touch, email [email protected]. Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, PHP, C++, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Developer

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017) on Monday April 03, 2017 @11:02AM (#14023213)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com

Step.com is a salary discovery platform that lets software engineers and product managers find out what companies and experts would pay them. Feedback and compensation estimates are predicted based on anonymized profile data and company criteria.

We're looking for an experienced software engineer to help us with the architecture of our systems, coding the frontend and backend, working on our algorithms, and more. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

Read about our analysis on tech salaries across engineering levels at some the major tech companies: https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...

To get in touch, email [email protected].

Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Developer

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017) on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @12:09PM (#13765662)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com

Step.com is a salary discovery platform that lets software engineers and product managers find out what companies and experts would pay them. Feedback and compensation estimates are predicted based on anonymized profile data and company criteria.

We're looking for an experienced software engineer to help us with the architecture of our systems, coding the frontend and backend, working on our algorithms, and more. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

Read about our analysis on tech salaries across engineering levels at some the major tech companies: https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...

To get in touch, email [email protected]. Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Developer

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016) on Thursday December 01, 2016 @11:41AM (#13080734)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com

Step.com is a salary discovery platform that lets software engineers and product managers find out what companies and experts think of them. Feedback and compensation estimates are predicted based on anonymized profile data and company criteria.

We're looking for an experienced software engineer to help us with the architecture of our systems, coding the frontend and backend, working on our algorithms, and more. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

Read about our analysis on tech salaries across engineering levels at some the major tech companies: https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...

To get in touch, email [email protected]. Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Developer

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016) on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @11:03AM (#12846199)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com

Step.com is an anonymous platform that lets software engineers and product managers find out what companies and experts think of them and would pay them. Step sends users feedback and compensation predictions, based on anonymized profile data and criteria provided to us by companies.

We're looking for an experienced software engineer to help us with the architecture of our systems, coding the frontend and backend, working on our algorithms, and more. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

Read about our analysis on tech salaries across engineering levels at some the major tech companies: https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...

To get in touch, email [email protected].

Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Engineer

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016) on Monday October 03, 2016 @11:08AM (#12627931)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com

Step.com is a salary discovery platform that lets software engineers and product managers find out what companies and experts think of them. Feedback and compensation estimates are predicted based on anonymized profile data and company criteria.

We're looking for an experienced software engineer to help us with the architecture of our systems, coding the frontend and backend, working on our algorithms, and more. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

Read about our analysis on tech salaries across engineering levels at some the major tech companies: https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...

To get in touch, email [email protected]. Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Engineer http://www.step.com

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016) on Thursday September 01, 2016 @11:05AM (#12405797)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com

Step.com is a salary discovery platform that lets software engineers and product managers receive personalized compensation estimates from companies and experts based on their anonymized profile data.

We're currently in beta and looking to bring on a software engineer to help us with the architecture of our systems, coding the backend, building out the dashboard, working on our algorithms, and more. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

For an example of what we're trying to accomplish, read our analysis on tech salaries across engineering levels at some the major tech companies: https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...

To get in touch, email [email protected]. Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Engineer http://www.step.com

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016) on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @10:43AM (#12210285)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com

Step.com is a new salary discovery platform lets engineers and product managers find out what companies would pay them. The platform is anonymous, and Step members receive personalized compensation estimates based on their anonymized profile data and companies' hiring criteria.

We're currently in beta and looking to bring on a software engineer to help us with the architecture of our systems, coding the backend, building out the dashboard, working on our algorithms, and more. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We currently use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

For an example of what we're trying to accomplish, read our analysis on tech salaries across engineering levels at some the major tech companies: https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...

To get in touch, email [email protected]. Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Engineer http://www.step.com

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016) on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @11:03AM (#12036897)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com

Step.com is a new salary discovery platform where engineers and product managers can receive personalized compensation estimates anonymously crowdsourced from NYC startups and hiring experts. We're currently in beta for NYC engineers and PMs.

We're looking to bring on a software engineer to help us build out our platform. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We currently use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

For an example of what we're trying to accomplish, read our analysis on tech salaries across engineering levels at some the major tech companies: https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...

To get in touch, email [email protected]. Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Engineer

http://www.step.com

Unfortunately, there aren't yet enough compensation data points for other companies for us to do an analysis. But, we did include a link to the raw data where people have contributed their compensation for some of these smaller companies: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BYn35bPjeUTZY_W_dkAQ...
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016) on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @11:14AM (#11814987)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com

Step.com is building a platform where engineers and product managers can find their market value, by anonymously crowdsourcing personalized salary estimates and other feedback from NYC startups and hiring experts. We're currently in beta for NYC engineers and PMs.

We're looking to bring on a full-stack engineer to help us build out our platform. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We currently use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

For an example what we're trying to accomplish, read our write-up on 689 tech salaries posted on Hacker News here: https://blog.step.com/2016/04/08/an-open-source-project-for-...

To get in touch, email [email protected]. Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Engineer http://www.step.com

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016) on Monday May 02, 2016 @12:00PM (#11612550)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com Step.com is building a platform where engineers and product managers can find their market value while staying anonymous. We crowdsource for you personalized salary estimates from NYC startups and hiring experts, based your anonymized profile. You'll never have to interview or talk to a recruiter to find out what companies think of you and how they value you. We're currently in beta for NYC engineers and PMs.

We're looking to bring on a full-stack engineer to help us build out our platform. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We currently use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

For an example what we're trying to accomplish, read our write-up on 689 tech salaries posted on Hacker News here: https://blog.step.com/2016/04/08/an-open-source-project-for-...

To get in touch, email [email protected]. Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Engineer http://www.step.com

Good question. We checked the raw data again, and the signing bonuses are all consistently high for Facebook Level 1. We also know a couple of people at Facebook who have received signing bonuses in line with the $75K. But we don't yet know why it's so high compared with the other companies.
We straight lined Amazon's stock signing bonuses for comparison with the other companies.
Thank you!
Thanks for the feedback :). L1 is right out of college, but the others are based on different criteria. Quora has a pretty good post that describes the levels at Amazon, which you can translate into our levels that we created to compare across the companies. https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-different-levels-of-softw...
The second chart should show the compensation breakdown across salary, cash bonus and equity.

In NYC and SF, there's high demand for and short supply of developers, which drives up compensation. Companies in these cities will recruit from across the country to get talent. Cities like Dallas though also have a much lower cost of living, so that should be taken into account. There was a Hacker News thread about this at one point.

We don't yet have enough data on each market, but we plan on breaking out the analysis by city once we get that data.

This is really cool!
Definitely. We have a few data points on tech roles at non-profits, but not enough to draw any meaningful conclusions yet. Hopefully, we can get some more data around this to be able to post the same type of analysis. We'll also be doing it for smaller companies too, to see how compensation compares across company size.
These are just the companies that had the most data points, probably because the original posts that the data came from were about Amazon and Google salaries :). We plan to update our analysis with more companies and roles as we get enough data.
We just notice that of the engineers on our platform, the people who make more money generally don't seek out this kind of data. And the people who are more uncertain about what they should be making tend to be more curious and willing to share.
No, we don't have hard data on this. We just notice that of the engineers on our platform, we find that the people who make more money generally don't seek out this kind of data. And the people who are more uncertain about what they should be making tend to be more curious and willing to share.
We're not quite there yet with the data we have :). Anecdotally though, it seems like companies in Europe pay less and take out more taxes.
There are a bunch of spreadsheets. We consolidated and standardized the data on a few of them, but we still have more to do. We clean the data, and then we try to see what type of synthesized info we can provide back.

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