After posting and reading all the other listings. I've realized I'm one of the few hardware guys on HN.
Any other hardware/low-level guys out there?
Show HN: Get a better job offer, anonymously - my weekend hack
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#13Why would people disclose the current salary they have?
That's assuming the numbers they disclose are even honest to begin with.
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#14Maybe instead of "and I currently make ___" you should have "and I have ___ years experience in ____". Or at least have both.
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#15I like this, because it's difficult to get honest numbers about salary for a given position/location. Entirely apart from the "job seeking" part of the equation, the raw data is very interesting to me.
There will be a fake/fudge factor to account for, but it's so hard to get people to talk about their salaries honestly that it's very interesting to see some raw data there.
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#16If a hiring company were look at this they'll naturally see the "I currently make" amount and consider that market rate. After all, it matters not what people want to make, but instead by the amount for which people have demonstrated that they are willing to work.
It's worth noting that something like this will naturally self-select people who feel they're underpaid, so you're likely seeing the lower edge of "market rate" here.
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#17Wow, I can't believe how quickly this site activated my inner voyeur.
I'm a CTO (Rails), and I currently make $20,000 in San Francisco. I'm ONLY interested in jobs as a Rails Engineer that pay at least $100,000 in The Bay Area.
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#18Interesting idea. I'd like to see some stats when you get enough data, stuff like number of responses, number of people who found a job through the service, etc....
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#19I don't know how you did it, but I'm pretty sure you were spying on me. I was literally talking to a friend about this exact idea this weekend. We're trying to hire some developers and wondered if anything like this existed since its becoming very difficult to poach. I almost built the same thing this weekend. Edit - I'm curious. Have you thought about how you will tackle the potential spam problem? Recruiters are go…
An effective method of filtering out recruiters would be to require a screening (paid for by the company). A few simple checks would cut out 95% of the problem.
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#20Wow, I can't believe how quickly this site activated my inner voyeur. I'm a CTO (Rails), and I currently make $20,000 in San Francisco. I'm ONLY interested in jobs as a Rails Engineer that pay at least $100,000 in The Bay Area.
I'm assuming the $20k he/she works at a early stage startup. There are CTOs that are working for $0 and all equity.