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Re: Ask HN: Team for Hire?

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Post by micah_chatt »

archon wrote: post #77

As another Chattanooga dev, I hate to be a wet blanket, but I would be very surprised if any startup here has a need for or ability to employ a team that large. Especially since the larger employers here (TVA, Blue Cross, Unum, Covenant Transport, USX) are all .Net shops. I'm not saying it's impossible, just that I believe you would be better served to either find individual jobs here, or be willing to relocate. (And…

I know of one company https://twitter.com/kenmcelrath/status/784418953141493760

Re: Ask HN: Team for Hire?

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archon wrote: post #77

As another Chattanooga dev, I hate to be a wet blanket, but I would be very surprised if any startup here has a need for or ability to employ a team that large. Especially since the larger employers here (TVA, Blue Cross, Unum, Covenant Transport, USX) are all .Net shops. I'm not saying it's impossible, just that I believe you would be better served to either find individual jobs here, or be willing to relocate. (And…

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Re: Ask HN: Team for Hire?

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Post by mrfusion »

sailfast wrote: post #75
mrfusion wrote: post #60

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How do you start a business development pipeline?

Well - this is a broad question and sales / pipeline building is an art all its own that is industry specific BUT assuming you want to build products for people for hire you might: - Identify a number of potential network contacts working for companies that may need the help, reach out to them, tell them about what you're doing and ask to meet for coffee to talk about how you can help them - Work your network to see…

How do you contact a cto or cio?

Re: Ask HN: Team for Hire?

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Post by eldavido »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #52
gkop wrote: post #50

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The OP could have declined to mention OpenTable by name in order to save OpenTable the embarassment.

> in order to save OpenTable the embarrassment. Don't do something embarrassing if you want to be saved embarrassment. If you're closing a branch office, but providing the option for people to move to SF, that's important information future candidates should know about how your business operates.

Reading between the lines here, I suspect there might be language in a buyout/severance agreement some of the employees are party to that might have sensitive terms, like anti-disparagement or other stuff, and they don't want to lose it.

More broadly, it pays to know your rights as an employee.

toomuchtodo and I both spend too much time on HN and I've gotten to know him a bit from his posts; I ascertain he's probably pretty far left of me, politically. I'm more of a stereotypical tech guy, left/center-moderate, but even I agree, employees have rights, and it pays to know yours. Your employer cannot fire you for bargaining collectively. Period. IANAL, but my understanding is that the FLSA specifically protects what you're doing now, and you might even be able to file a wrongful termination suit if they act on it. It also means the language in whatever agreement you have might not be enforceable.

I grew up in Chicago and know union excesses well. But whatever your ideology, it pays to know a bit about the law, and what you can and can't do.

[1] https://www.dol.gov/Olms/regs/compliance/EmployeeRightsPoste...

Re: Ask HN: Team for Hire?

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Post by bbarn »

stray wrote: post #88
bbarn wrote: post #44

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Funny, as a cyclist - Chatanooga was a really exciting prospect for a trip. There's beautiful mountains to ride on, great looking roads, etc... but the locals were awful to deal with when we went. I have had less altercations and negative experiences with people in Chicago than there. Boulder on the other hand was always great for that. Chatanooga proper seems to have done it's best to be welcoming, but it's the moun…

Very clear non-whites weren't welcome? I'm going to have to ask for proof because it hasn't been 1961 for a very long time now. And Chatty is a very very long way from Vidor, Texas.

I'm specifically referencing confederate flags and signs that said "Trespassers will be shot, niggers will be shot twice", when riding up in the mountains, on rural but modern paved roads. I could probably dig up specific garmin files from the rides but it was more than one place.

This was 2014, not 1961.

Re: Ask HN: Team for Hire?

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Post by mtalantikite »

krschultz wrote: post #71
mtalantikite wrote: post #54

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Homelessness is not just about pan handlers on the street and other visible forms of homelessness. A lot of the time you can't tell someone is homeless, or is experiencing intermittent homelessness. A quick google seems to point to about 4000 people in Chattanooga experiencing homelessness per year. SF has concrete stats that are easy to find [1] and points to 7,539 experiencing homelessness per year. Based on total…

You are comparing apples to oranges. The SF number is a "point in time count", so on that particular day there were 7500 homeless people. The Chattanooga # you are referencing is "how many people were homeless at any point in the year". Given how many people are temporarily homeless, I'm sure any point in time survey of Chattanooga would show a dramatically smaller number. I don't know if it's better or worse than SF…

Yeah, you're right, a longer Google makes that obvious. I couldn't find a good source for PIT for Chattanooga, but it looks to be somewhere around 700 based on a few news articles. So it's about .4% vs .9%.

I think the conclusion still stands though, it's not correct to state Chattanooga has no problem with homelessness and SF is overrun. Homelessness isn't just people asking you for money on the street.

Re: Ask HN: Team for Hire?

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Post by rhizome »

AznHisoka wrote: post #20
gregkerzhner wrote: post #14

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The appeal of both places is that they have a wealth of outdoor activities really close by (especially rock climbing). This is subjective, but I think the rock climbing is better in Chattanooga. Also, people are friendlier and more down to earth in Chatty, its that southern hospitality after all. The Boulderites have a reputation for being snobs and yuppies. Also the cost of living is way cheaper in Chattanooga.

What's the difference between a yuppie, a hipster and a millenial? I get these buzzwords confused.

They are stereotypes denoting different generational cultures (wikipedia calls it "demographic cohort"). If I made your list chronologically I would put "Generation X" between yuppie and hipster.

Every generation gets a name, huge swaths of commerce depend on it.

Re: Ask HN: Team for Hire?

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Post by rfc »

eganist wrote: post #4
rfc wrote: post #3

I spent a few minutes searching but couldn't find the link. IIRC, Airbnb was testing out hiring full teams. It was a pilot program and I'm not sure if it's still going on. If you know anyone there, I'd reach out to ask.

Are you sure it wasn't Stripe? https://stripe.com/blog/bring-your-own-team @wilwade, check the link. This might be your best shot aside from somebody reading this thread and offering directly.

Ah yes! Apologies. Stripe is the one. Thanks!

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Post by joeclark77 »

Infernal wrote: post #86
joeclark77 wrote: post #64

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Does anybody remember the terms DINK or BoBo? Some fun nicknames for demographics that I haven't heard in a while.

DINK as in "dual income no kids"? That one is still in common usage as far as I know, I have heard at least a couple people say it in the past month. Never heard of BoBo as far as I can recall.

It meant "bourgeois bohemian", and referred to the sort of yuppies who shop at Whole Foods and style themselves as hippies. I knew a bunch of people who thought it applied to themselves or their friends in the early 2000s. But I haven't heard it much in five or ten years now.
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