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Are Product Managers the New Software Engineers?
Re:Ask HN: Engineer Salaries in New York Compared to San Francisco Cur...
on Friday January 27, 2017 @03:37PM (#13502449)
San Francisco average software engineer salary: $139,036
New York average: $124,691
More here, including adjusted averages based on cost of living: https://hired.com/blog/candidates/where-engineer-salaries-pa...
Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite product design blog to follow?
on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @07:46PM (#13487758)
Inside Intercom, hands down. https://blog.intercom.com
Re:Ask HN: What's happening in agricultural technology?
on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @01:53PM (#13474316)
This place is pretty cool, based in Boston: indigoag.com
Re:Ask HN: Recruiters specializing in remote work?
on Thursday January 19, 2017 @04:33PM (#13439689)
Also, Angellist filters are helpful for finding openings at seed-series c startups: https://angel.co/jobs#find/f!%7B%22remote%22%3Atrue%2C%22rol...
Re:Ask HN: Recruiters specializing in remote work?
on Thursday January 19, 2017 @04:24PM (#13439625)
Hired does have companies hiring remote engineers on the platform — so definitely signup & ask your talent advocate for help matching to the right roles.
I've been meaning to write up a roundup of companies with entirely remote teams (technical or all-company) — but in the absence of that, I know Toptal, Buffer, Dribbble, Invision, Zapier, and Github all have remote (or partially remote) technical teams.
Re:Ask HN: Ways to get hired anonymously?
on Thursday January 19, 2017 @04:19PM (#13439596)
Hired (hired.com) does two things that might be close to what you're looking for, if not providing the entire solution:
— We hide candidate profiles from their current employers (and others, upon request)
— We also have a feature for employers called the 'bias elimination tool' which anonymizes candidate names and photos when companies are viewing candidate profiles (more here: https://hired.com/blog/highlights/howhiredcanhelpremoveuncon...)
Re:Ask HN: Is there a publicly available database of org charts?
on Thursday January 19, 2017 @04:15PM (#13439564)
Thanks! Hoping to drill into even the operator level, but those will be harder to source / vet. Will dig into SEC and related resources.
Ask HN: Is there a publicly available database of org charts?
Looking for org charts per year for companies as they grow — interested in seeing what roles and functions are added when, etc. I've found some old Apple charts via Computer History Museum and Internet Archive, but it seems like there should be an open source project to collect these, if there's not already.
Ask HN: What company or person came up with whiteboard interviews?
Researching the history of technical interviews (in all forms), and I haven't yet tracked down the origins of the whiteboard interview. Whose idea was it that writing code on a whiteboard should be part of the interview process? Also interested in any anecdotes re: managers who adopted the practice, more context re: how it spread, etc.