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Re: Ask HN: Team for Hire?

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Post by joshbetz »

eganist wrote: post #2

http://nooga.com/174179/opentable-to-leave-chattanooga/ Interesting. I know there are Very good reasons for not relocating to either Los Angeles or San Francisco, but what were the specific reasons (aside from family/homes, if any) you and the team had for opting not to relocate? Further to this: 2) Were team members offered raises as part of a relocation package? 3) Were team members offered the opportunity to work…

> Interesting. I know there are Very good reasons for not relocating to either Los Angeles or San Francisco, but what were the specific reasons (aside from family/homes, if any) you and the team had for opting not to relocate?

Do you need reasons other than family/homes?

Re: Ask HN: Team for Hire?

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Post by angryasian »

pknerd wrote: post #16

a bit OT. Since you are already a team, utilize spare time to make some awesome product. Someone will eventually hire you :)

I know people always say this but the job search and preparation is taxing. Going through everyday for listings then all the prep work involving reading about cs stuff, and practicing white board questions.

Re: Ask HN: Team for Hire?

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Post by LargeCompanies »

mhluongo wrote: post #28
LargeCompanies wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heck yeah anywhere in TN vs. SAN Francisco. There's about a zero homeless epedemic(it's very sad to see/experience how many suffer on the streets there) in Nashville and elsewhere compared to the Mecca of that SAN Fran. Cost of living is great.. mountains.. fresh air.. no people shouting crazy stuff with a megaphone and more. Note I live and am from the D.C. area and graduated from MTSU.. visited SAN Fran many times…

As someone who's lived in both places, Nashville has plenty of issues as well. Never seeing homeless people or people who don't look like you doesn't mean they aren't the or that there's not a problem, it just means it's less visible

Yes less suffering in just about every US city then SAN Fran in this regards.

Thankfully it's not seen that/as much in Nashville and Baltimore. More in the latter then the former.

Re: Ask HN: Team for Hire?

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Post by dragonwriter »

mhluongo wrote: post #28
LargeCompanies wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heck yeah anywhere in TN vs. SAN Francisco. There's about a zero homeless epedemic(it's very sad to see/experience how many suffer on the streets there) in Nashville and elsewhere compared to the Mecca of that SAN Fran. Cost of living is great.. mountains.. fresh air.. no people shouting crazy stuff with a megaphone and more. Note I live and am from the D.C. area and graduated from MTSU.. visited SAN Fran many times…

As someone who's lived in both places, Nashville has plenty of issues as well. Never seeing homeless people or people who don't look like you doesn't mean they aren't the or that there's not a problem, it just means it's less visible

> Never seeing homeless people or people who don't look like you doesn't mean they aren't the or that there's not a problem

In fact, many jurisdictions have practices which inflict harm on the homeless specifically to make them less visible (and/or to cause them to relocate and become someone else's problem.)

Re: Ask HN: Team for Hire?

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Post by oxryly1 »

LargeCompanies wrote: post #33
mhluongo wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who's lived in both places, Nashville has plenty of issues as well. Never seeing homeless people or people who don't look like you doesn't mean they aren't the or that there's not a problem, it just means it's less visible

Yes less suffering in just about every US city then SAN Fran in this regards. Thankfully it's not seen that/as much in Nashville and Baltimore. More in the latter then the former.

Sometimes ignorance is bliss. Or at least better quality of life :p

Re: Ask HN: Team for Hire?

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Post by davidw »

pooper wrote: post #9
stray wrote: post #7

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I can't speak for OP, but Chattanooga is a pretty awesome place to be. I left Chattanooga for Boulder and it was the second stupidest thing I've ever done. Ok, maybe third.

What do you not like about Boulder? I was there for a summer and I loved that place.

Boulder is really nice, but they have crazy NIMBY politics there:

https://journal.dedasys.com/2015/06/18/boulder-colorado-vs-b...

Re: Ask HN: Team for Hire?

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Post by kevinskii »

hn94805 wrote: post #15
eganist wrote: post #2

http://nooga.com/174179/opentable-to-leave-chattanooga/ Interesting. I know there are Very good reasons for not relocating to either Los Angeles or San Francisco, but what were the specific reasons (aside from family/homes, if any) you and the team had for opting not to relocate? Further to this: 2) Were team members offered raises as part of a relocation package? 3) Were team members offered the opportunity to work…

Quality of life. OT is offering good raises, so it's not really a money issue. For most of us, if we wanted to be in SF we'd already be in SF. Chattanooga is just a great place to live.

I wasn't very familiar with Chattanooga before reading this thread, but after learning more about it I can see why you want to stay. It's a beautiful city.

Re: Ask HN: Team for Hire?

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Post by sailfast »

If you can't find a group that will hire you as a team, perhaps you should start a consulting / product firm. There's overhead / non-dev work to setting up shop and starting a business development pipeline to get revenue in the door of course, but if you want to stick together, build great things, and keep your culture that's a solid option if others fail.
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