uglysexy
> you have a bunch of people somewhere, say, the US, and a bunch of other people somewhere else, say, China > If you can just plop a datacenter exactly at the midpoint
That would be Hawaii
Reasonable salary to you is different from reasonable salary to a highly qualified CEO. Also, you should revisit your idea of qualifications. There are many VP/SVP level folks who are fully qualified to be CEO given the chance. CEOs weren't born CEOs. There were promoted to that position.
I'm a proponent of public benefit corporations. I think Kickstarter became one last year. There's also Just Capital, a nonprofit organization created by Paul Tudor Jones II with Deepak Chopra. They have a metric to measure and rank benefit corps.
The argument of open borders as "the best way to reduce global inequality" is pure myth. How do you explain all the poor black people in Chicago or all the poor Mexicans in Los Angeles. These are people whose families have been living in America for generations yet are still poor. How about the fact that upper-class Indians are the ones who get work or student visas but the lower caste Indians don't have the equal opportunity.
I would ask people to address the inequalities in their home countries first before blaming other countries. I think the answer is to first address the reasons why 2nd or 3rd world countries remain as they are, preventing the citizens of that country (and the country in general) to become more prosperous. There are so many countries that are blessed with so much natural resources and human talent yet remain 2nd or 3rd world.
I think the reason for this are: corruption, graft, cronyism, elitism, colonialism, etc. Fix this so people don't have to migrate/flee to the few first world countries - which is not sustainable.
- digital currency that doesn't need network connectivity nor blockchain to do a transaction (just device to device)
- systems that actively monitor for suspicious/anomalous network activity and respond in real-time (security that can prevent Sony & OPM hacks) or simply put: security products that will stop the Chinese from hacking US networks
- urban farming
- fish/seafood farming
- batteries from garbage
- products that save rain water - from your home's rain gutter or from the roadside curb - and into a cistern
- a way to lift third-world countries out of their situation so there are no more third-world countries (all of Bill Gates' and Oprah's money have barely made a dent)
- underwater or ocean based communities
- cleaning up the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch'
- more women/female programmers/engineers (it IS the pipeline and perhaps even the culture)
- an actual, real hoverboard
Are you really going to read all these comments or did I just waste my time writing this??
It is a work & project management SaaS tool. it has a kanban planner and I think it also has ability to schedule recurring tasks.
Bottom line is - hiring (or lack of) is a leading indicator of a company's financial health. A company that doesn't have any open jobs for a sustained length of time (3-6 months to a year) is in belt tightening mode - which comes right before layoffs or worse, closing shop.
Btw - Yahoo is already doing layoffs or 'downsizing'. If Yahoo wasn't hiring during the past 3-6 months, that definitely was an indicator of this.
Yahoo Downsizes In Latin America, Closes Mexico And Argentina Operations http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/28/yahoo-downsizes-in-latin-am...
Here are some news sites that track layoffs. I recommend keeping a close eye on things.
http://techcrunch.com/tag/layoffs/
https://twitter.com/search?q=layoff%20OR%20layoffs%20OR%20%2...
Or better yet, keep an eye on the Dice jobs number which is prominently displayed on the Dice.com home page.
As of today, January 29, 2016 that number is 84,201. My take is that if this number goes below 60,000 then the bubble is bursting.
When these tech giants have layoffs - usually in the 100s or 1000s - it's a big hit to the job market. May not be reflected on Craigslist or Dice, but there'll be a lot more job-seekers. Instead of getting 50 resumes per job posting, hiring managers would be getting hundreds.
The wage metric to use in the hiring of an H1B worker is the top end of the salary range of that job description for the city or area PLUS a 10-20% premium. This ensures that the company really needs to bring someone in. An entry level engineer in SF/SV would have the tier 1 salary apply to them while a senior engineer would get the higher tier.
The problem isn't just the definition of 'prevailing wage' or the use of the lower tier 1 salary figures for senior positions. The problem is the lack of enforcement by the goverment agencies approving these visa applications.
A good indicator of a bubble in SF/SV startups is measuring the IT job market using local Craiglist and Dice job postings since startups heavily use them.
I used both websites on & off since the late 90s to find contract & permanent full-time jobs. Back then at the height of the dot-coms, the Dice home page showed 120,000+ jobs, right after the crash (2001-2003) that number fell to around 20,000-30,000. Now it's around 80,000.
On Craigslist, at the dot com height, the Software section for the Bay Area (https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sof) had so many job postings per day that the list of postings for that day would spill over to the next page (there are 100 listings per page). A year & a half ago (late 2014) there was a good amount of postings and I got a frenzy of replies when I contacted them. Now, there's only a handful of postings per day.
I'd like to ask you all about what you've experienced & seen on Craiglist and Dice that would give you an idea on how good or bad the IT job market in San Francisco (and the Bay Area in general) is or was. I hear conflicting stories of qualified people not able to find jobs after a year of searching (like the SOAP architect below) and on the flip side, of companies not able to find people (the so-called 'IT talent shortage').
I used both websites on & off since the late 90s to find contract & permanent full-time jobs. Back then at the height of the dot-coms, the Dice home page showed 120,000+ jobs, right after the crash (2001-2003) that number fell to around 20,000-30,000. Now it's around 80,000.
On Craigslist, at the dot com height, the Software section for the Bay Area (https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sof) had so many job postings per day that the list of postings for that day would spill over to the next page (there are 100 listings per page). A year & a half ago (late 2014) there was a good amount of postings and I got a frenzy of replies when I contacted them. Now, there's only a handful of postings per day.
I think it'd be good to get an idea of SF/SV IT job market's fluctuation over the years by compiling these data points. I did a Google search for charts with these data points but couldn't find any. If any of you used these two sites anytime from the late 90s to today and remember the # of postings for that specific date or time period, please post. Ideally, month to month data with high interest on data points from 1999-2003 (dot-com bubble) and 2006 to today (credit bubble).
The toughest and highest profile person who is going up against the abuse & exploitation of the H1B, L1, F1 OPT visa programs is Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama. He wrote Trump's immigration position policy on Trump's website.
And recently Michele Malkin wrote a book on the fleecing of American IT workers by the H1B program.
www.amazon.com/Sold-Out-Billionaires-Bipartisan-Crapweasels/dp/1501115944/
NumbersUSA.com is also good.
a lot of web pages nowadays, especially in blogs have so much crap like tracking links and advertising. When I save via #1 or 2, I first go into Firebug and delete DOM elements that clutter up the saved HTML.
If I copy & paste into Word, it copies the markup info like hyperlinks. If I don't want this, I first copy into Notepad, then into Word, to get rid of this.
The key differentiation is: is the company a technology company (Clyde's approach is more valuable) or not (Alice's approach is more valuable).