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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)

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Anybody know why most of the comments almost never post any salary information for that job listing? I feel like this should be a requirement rather than having to play this useless negotiation game.

That's probably because the game is not useless... for one side.

If you find a guy who is good at doing his job, but has no idea about its market value, and asks for half of what he could get, great! You just got a 50% discount. Imagine how hard he will work in order to get a 5% salary raise... which will still be a 45% discount.

If that guy is already working for you (with the 50% discount) and you post a new job listing for a similar position, with the offer of market salary, he may find out. And he will not be happy.

Why don't you simply offer 50% of the market salary? Because you do not want to limit your applicant pool; you need a certain amount of competent people, and they are hard to find. For example, if you need three people, you may find three that ask for 100%, 90%, and 50% of the market salary respectively, and you can hire all three. If you offered 50%, you would have only found one. If you offered 100%, you would not get the occassional discount.

Long interviews are usually more costly for the employee than for the employer. The employee usually needs to prepare for the interview, travel to the new place, and take the interview typically during working hours, which probably means that he needs a day off. On the other hand, the employer does the interview at his own place, during working hours, giving the same prepared questions to everyone, so the only cost is literally the time during the interview. So, if something costs 3 hours to me, but 3 days of vacation to you, at the end I can offer you 10% less than I think you are worth, and there is a chance you will take it to avoid having to do more interviews for 3 more days of vacation each. (Telling you my offer beforehand would save you those 3 days, so you wouldn't be so pressed to accept it.)

Probably a few more reasons I forgot now.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)

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Fugue | Frontend Designer and Developer | REMOTE or Washington, DC | Full time Fugue builds next-generation cloud security tools for engineers. Our SaaS application continuously monitors and reports on misconfigurations and security vulnerabilities. Our interactive, WebGL-based visualization helps engineers understand what cloud resources exist and how they connect. We're looking for a creative designer/developer. So…

Hi - possible to apply without creating a LinkedIn profile? I do not have one and don't want to create one.

Sure, thanks for asking. You can reach me at curtis at fugue.co

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)

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TileDB, Inc. | Full-Time | REMOTE | USA | Greece | https://tiledb.com TileDB, Inc. is the company behind TileDB, the first universal data engine. TileDB allows analytics professionals and data scientists to access, analyze, and share complex data sets with any tool at extreme scale. TileDB overcomes the constraints of columnar tables, flat files, and SQL-only tools, handling all data with a multi-dimensional array en…

We are also looking for several geospatial/geoscience positions including a PostgreSQL developer to take advantage of pluggable storage for PostGIS usage with TileDB.

Your postings link is claiming I have "No internet connection" after downloading the frontend. Likely an issue with Workable?

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)

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Sourcegraph (https://sourcegraph.com) | Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, Security Engineer, Product Manager | ALL REMOTE

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Apply to one of our many open roles here: https://github.com/sourcegraph/careers/

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)

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SageSure | Software Test Engineer | Remote (but must be able to work in the US)

It's not up on our careers page yet, but we're adding to our QA team at SageSure (https://www.sagesure.com/). We're a technology company in the property insurance business, growing steadily with lots of nice, smart folks.

Our team focuses primarily on UI automation with Selenium, using a python BDD framework. We work closely with the development teams of the apps we are testing, so you will be expected to learn the apps and assist in manual validation as necessary.

I'll add the link to the job as soon as it is available, but in the mean time you can reach out to me directly if you're interested. (alec.munro @ SageSure)

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)

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post #508

Anybody know why most of the comments almost never post any salary information for that job listing? I feel like this should be a requirement rather than having to play this useless negotiation game.

There's a lot of salary information on sites like https://levels.fyi and https://www.teamblind.com/

They might not have all the companies listed in this thread, but there is enough information there to find out your market value.

If you don't like useless negotiation, there are websites that can help with that also: https://candor.co/guides/salary-negotiation

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are also looking for several geospatial/geoscience positions including a PostgreSQL developer to take advantage of pluggable storage for PostGIS usage with TileDB.

Your postings link is claiming I have "No internet connection" after downloading the frontend. Likely an issue with Workable?

Yes this looks like a workable problem. We've reached out to their support. I'm seeing if I refresh the page 4-5 times I get it to finally load. Apologize for the inconvenience!
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