Ask HN: Who is firing? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by issaria » Tue, Nov 08, 2016, 10:41 AM UTC

muyuu wrote: post #439

neokya wrote: post #424

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Not really for Berlin. It's more than average pay, see http://www.nuberlin.com/2016/01/average-salary-in-berlin/ Also note, 38K is for person with science/engineering background. Otherwise, lower limit for EU Bluecard is around 48K

That seems a bit low. Here in London it's a waiter's salary.

Well, giving that the GBP against EUR rate is like 1:1.1 at the moment, even if you have 70k anual salary Berlin, it's much less than who paid 70K in Berin, considering the living cost. And 70K is very reasonable now with Senior title, not to mention manage positions.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by webmaven » Tue, Nov 08, 2016, 4:06 PM UTC

scribdjobs wrote: post #441

webmaven wrote: post #378

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Here is how it happens: You're applying at a bunch of places, some of them being internal referrals from friends of yours. After a while you notice that all of your job applications are fizzling out, so, frustrated, you start asking for feedback (especially since a friend of yours kept getting rejected for talking about SOA instead of RESTful APIs). The answers you get aren't helpful, like "we just felt that you were…

Definitely make sure you're giving references who are reliable. But why would /anyone/ give a reference who would badmouth them?

Haven't you ever been surprised to find out that someone didn't like you?

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by webmaven » Tue, Nov 08, 2016, 4:06 PM UTC

wayn3 wrote: post #445

mgkimsal wrote: post #380

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Cue people spouting how it's illegal for you to record a conversation.

lots of places in the US where recording a conversation is legal if one party of the conversation agrees to it (in this case, the party that does the recording)

Bingo.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by sdoering » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 1:11 PM UTC

phoet wrote: post #403

sdoering wrote: post #99

Here in Germany. Jimdo (something like SquareSpace) is laying of (I believe) up to 25% of it's staff.

that is correct, they even created a website (with a competitor) for some of the people that were let go: http://j-quit.weebly.com/

Thanks for the link. We made an effort to communicate that we are hiring into the ranks of people jimdo let go (or people who want to leave)[1].

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/SinnerSchrader/photos/a.49429155213...