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Re: Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact

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Post by jedberg »

jbothma wrote: post #159
wayne-li2 wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could I posit that your limiting factor is actually money, which prevents you from hiring more skilled people?

That doesn't bear out in interviews and the remuneration stage of hiring. The main struggle is lack of sufficiently skilled applicants. The problem might be our ability to attract them! But it's a tough market.

Once you offer enough money you will attract the talent. And if you can't afford to offer competitive salaries, then you're back to your-problem-is-lack-of-money.

Re: Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact

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Post by jedberg »

wayne-li2 wrote: post #160
_dark_matter_ wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you ever donated 10s of thousands to a political campaign? For anything congressional-level or lower, this gets you calls from the politician, face-to-face access, emails, meetings, and up-to-date info. You will soon be fielding calls from people you haven't donated to, who think you may donate, and they will also listen to you. And this is for congressional-level. For state senate, state house, local gov, etc.…

I can confirm. After donating a similar amount, I regularly field calls from candidates (directly, not from their staff). Granted it’s usually just asking for more money, although I’ve had some interesting chats to say the least. 10k is not a lot at the presidential election sure, and maybe not for Senate either, but it is a lot of money even in House races. And for many state races.

How do you contribute more than $2700? Ask for an invite to a fundraising dinner? Find a PAC? I've given the max contribution before but never heard about the ways to give more.

Re: Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact

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Post by kornish »

madprgmr wrote: post #127
kornish wrote: post #112

We're hiring at Gravity, a carbon accounting firm. Shoot me an email if you're interested in helping us fight climate change and grow revenue fast: ted@gravityclimate.com.

I attempted to visit y'all's website, but I get a DNS error? WHOIS shows it as registered though?

Marketing site is launching this summer, though emails are functional. The lack of site hasn't halted shipping or generating revenue :)

Re: Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact

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Post by headelf »

You can reach out and join us at Stashrun– we're reinventing charitable giving and letting our users take action on causes/nonprofit-backed campaigns without spending any of their own money.

Beyond bringing in new donations, the nonprofits receive more money per dollar, and it scales. It is truly a three-sided marketplace that benefits all parties

Re: Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact

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Post by sdooman »

hey! I'm a software engineer at Down Dog, an app for at home yoga & fitness.

We get users who write in thanking us for our work every day, so I feel very good about the positive impact we've had (made the apps free for 3mm+ people during the lockdowns in 2020, all apps free for students & teachers forever, etc).

And we're hiring! https://www.downdogapp.com/jobs

Re: Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact

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Post by giantg2 »

dbrueck wrote: post #124
giantg2 wrote: post #109

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Those articles are about old actions of the company. Those issues have led to changes that cause the company to be on the list now. They are spending billions on reducing emissions, researching alternative fuels, and partnering with renewable companies. Meanwhile, Tesla and Musk have a very recent historical pattern of not caring about environmental regulations, with no indication of any change in belief or practice.…

Here's some newer articles about recent and even ongoing sketchy behavior by Exxon: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/18/exxon-te... https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/28/california-subpoenas-exxon-f... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/11/exxon-ad... https://grist.org/beacon/did-exxon-know-about-plastics-too/ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-labor-board-impou... https://www.reuters.…

"When a company has literally decades of bad behavior (including multiple instances of being caught and then promising to do better and then being caught lying about it), it's a little hard to immediately accept at face value their most recent good deeds (especially since even some of them are already looking shady)."

True. Sounds like both of them.

Re: Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact

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Post by akhmatova »

callmeed wrote: post #156

Lots of great answers here. I’ll add my employer Indeed, the world’s #1 job website/app. Our mission is simple: help people get jobs. For a large tech company I find it extremely impressive how much everyone at the company–from senior leadership to L1 engineers–sincerely believe in the mission and what we’re doing. I’ve got several openings on my team. I’d encourage you to read more about our values. If it aligns wit…

Unfortunately my experience with Indeed is that that a large portion of the postings (by which I mean not a majority, but still -- an annoyingly large portion) are apparently from outright scam operators.

By which I mean: Not just the usual, utterly incompetent wannabe recruiter types -- but blatantly fake operators which seem bent on either: (1) sucking up as many resumes as they can to sell to other recruiters; and/or (2) asking up front for personal identifiers (such as DOB and SSN) for, well, whatever nefarious purpose they may have in mind.

Is this deliberate negligence of scam operators -- and it seems very difficult to believe that senior management of Indeed is not aware of this problem, and of the approximate dimensions of if -- an expression of your "values"? Does it have "positive social impact"?

Please do clarify.

Re: Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact

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Post by wayne-li2 »

jedberg wrote: post #162
wayne-li2 wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can confirm. After donating a similar amount, I regularly field calls from candidates (directly, not from their staff). Granted it’s usually just asking for more money, although I’ve had some interesting chats to say the least. 10k is not a lot at the presidential election sure, and maybe not for Senate either, but it is a lot of money even in House races. And for many state races.

How do you contribute more than $2700? Ask for an invite to a fundraising dinner? Find a PAC? I've given the max contribution before but never heard about the ways to give more.

Correct, PAC another 5k, Super PAC unlimited or some amount too high for me to care.

Re: Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact

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Post by acheron »

wayne-li2 wrote: post #39

If you want to work at positive impact companies, Khan Academy is one that comes up in my head. But take it from me, someone who has volunteered for civic tech organizations and have participated in ground work for political campaigns. The most positive impact you could possibly make is money. Political campaigns need thousands of volunteers. But someone who has no skills or education can volunteer. The supply pool i…

He said positive impact on the world, and your suggestion is to donate money to a politician? It would have a better impact to set your money on fire.

Re: Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact

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Post by linsomniac »

akuchling wrote: post #77
linsomniac wrote: post #57

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Do you have any ideas on jobs for an RN that would like to change the healthcare world. Particularly an RN that was worn down pre-pandemic from the cost optimization that leads to nurses having 2x+ the ideal patient load, and families treating them like waitresses? Asking for a friend.

My employer, Aledade.com, runs ACOs and provides analytics and an app to help primary-care practices keep better track of their patient population. It's not necessarily revolutionary -- we're doing conventional things like reducing blood-pressure, just trying to do so conscientously. Our careers page is at https://www.aledade.com/current-opportunities >.

Oh, hey akuchling, Sean here, LTNS! If you're working there, it's got to be good! I'll take a look, thanks!
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