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My first question to any recruiter is "what is the salary range for this position." It's not worth investing my or your time if the range does not work for me. THIS is the reason w…

Most companies don't hire international remote workers directly because of the costs associated with international tax reporting. If a worker is in another country, that means tax …

No, but as a contractor you have to pay the full payroll tax (15%) + all the other SS / medicare costs (usually comes to about 2-3%), plus income tax (progressive and varies, but f…

I would add that many of the "senior" engineers in SV received that title because they joined a startup 6-months before the company secured major funding and massively scaled. Seni…

Article doesn't cover the fact that many companies are not setup to deal with taxation issues related to payroll for foreign employees. There's opportunity for a payroll company to…

Well in SV all you have to do is work at a startup for more than a year to get "promoted" to senior/lead developer, so it's not surprising that many people applying for those roles…

I had a coding test once where I was given someone else's code with an introduced bug, and I had to fix the bug. To do so, you were basically documenting the code along the way as …

No, they were in breach before hand, and Unity attempted (poorly) to make it more clear why Improbable was in breach with the ToS update. According to devs knowledgeable of Improba…

The problem is the cost of rent for individuals and businesses. Asides from housing costs, SF's cost of living is pretty standard for a city (a little higher than most, but depends…

Right, but everyone knows that if you have a spouse or kids you probably shouldn't be living in the bay area anyway unless you a rich. /s

Yeah, some of the comments in the thread allude to that possibility. If it's a matter of protecting business interests though, there are much more tactful ways of bringing that up …

Same. Ad starts playing? Skip to whatever is next in the feed. Ad at the start of a video, not even going to wait. As it is, after turning off all notifications from FB I maybe ope…

Junior devs finding an initial job and receiving mentoring is certainly an issue, but I think that the issue raised in the tweet is way more endemic to start-ups than more establis…

If you focus on computer vision / machine learning at least

If they aren't being paid at the beginning (equity only), then they are a co-founder of the company. If you want an employee, you find a way to pay them either through personal sav…

I needed to emphasize the if in that statement. :) The typical saltiness regarding interviewing on HN is warranted since it's usually an "and" thing.

You can also just throw out applicant number 26 and up. You most likely have a few solid candidates in the first 25 worth a phone call. And if not, look at 26 through 50. No reason…

I think many of the people on HN that say they won't do a take-home assignment would actually do a 30-60 minute take-home assignment if it meant avoiding the "code some algorithm o…

True, but a paid short-term contract to do an actual task for the company would work. Knock out a small feature during the night/weekend. Keep it something contained and relatively…

Reading this, all I could think was "Welcome to job searching." Companies that pull some of these things are places you don't want to work for. Contact emails you and then ignores …

Yes it was clear the poster was being derogatory to girls. It's also clear you are trying to normalize and justify such behavior. Both are unnecessary.

It starts early at the resume/email communications. I expect to see in communications that a candidate can present themselves in a mature, professional manner. That's something you…

Other cities with much better cost of living are gaining reputation in tech / start-ups and attracting talent (or just keeping the talent that went to school there).

The problem with a), is that often women aren't allowed to compete on merit, or they have to perform twice as hard, twice as often as a male colleague in order to prove it "wasn't …

He deserves the condemnation. He attempted to hide his disrespect towards diverse candidates by qualifying his statements with talk about "overlaps," "ranges in ability" and other …