Triplebyte Now in Seattle and Los Angeles • Hacker News Board

Re: Triplebyte Now in Seattle and Los Angeles

#41

Post by ticmasta » Wed, Oct 03, 2018, 6:02 PM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #28

Harj wrote: post #2

In addition to already seeing an increasing number of engineers from both Seattle and Los Angeles applying to Triplebyte, two other trends drove our decision to open up in these two locations. First we've seen a continual drop in the number of Seattle based engineers who are willing to relocate to the Bay Area. It's dropped by over half since the start of the year and it's the first sustained drop we've seen since st…

As a person in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle-Vancouver area) it would require a truly ridiculous amount of money to convince me to live in the SF Bay/South Bay area, and physically commute to an office 5 days a week. Considering the cost of California income taxes, housing costs, etc. Vancouver has an insane housing market but it is still possible to buy a nice 2BD condo in a concrete high-rise building for a relati…

>> Vancouver has an insane housing market but it is still possible to buy a nice 2BD condo in a concrete high-rise building for a relatively reasonable price, that a couple with two professional level salaries can afford.

Yes, but is this the pinnacle we should aspire to reach? 2 professional salaries to eventually own a 2br condo somewhere in the lower mainland?

Vancouver and Toronto have a comparable ratio of salary to home costs as many of the hottest US locales right now. I don't see how it's a sustainable way to grow a city...

Re: Triplebyte Now in Seattle and Los Angeles

#42

Post by ticmasta » Wed, Oct 03, 2018, 6:04 PM UTC

echevil wrote: post #40

walrus01 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a person in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle-Vancouver area) it would require a truly ridiculous amount of money to convince me to live in the SF Bay/South Bay area, and physically commute to an office 5 days a week. Considering the cost of California income taxes, housing costs, etc. Vancouver has an insane housing market but it is still possible to buy a nice 2BD condo in a concrete high-rise building for a relati…

Yeah, moving out of Bay Area sounds more and more reasonable now. I wonder if salaries in Vancouver would match that in Seattle. Both of them are very interesting cities to move to

from my experience you'll take a sizeable hit in salary moving from Seattle to Vancouver, before the exchange rate. The cost side is more comparable

Re: Triplebyte Now in Seattle and Los Angeles

#43

Post by ronilan » Wed, Oct 03, 2018, 6:04 PM UTC

> We're offering new companies in both Seattle and LA a special $15,000 fee on your first hire.

That is an insane amount of money in the world of education and skill training.

For an industry that prides itself on being “efficient” and “productive”, it is kind of amazing to see how institutionalized the gatekeeper business has become.

Re: Triplebyte Now in Seattle and Los Angeles

#44

Post by perfm0n » Wed, Oct 03, 2018, 6:11 PM UTC

tudelo wrote: post #11

Does anyone have experience with Vettery? Seems to be a somewhat similar service and they will absolutely not stop contacting me.

I've used both services in the past. Vettery doesn't seem to vet your technical skills the way Triplebyte does (3 hour long technical screen for me). All the companies I've matched with on Vettery asked me to go through a standard phone screen or two whereas it's waived for Triplebyte-partnered companies.

Re: Triplebyte Now in Seattle and Los Angeles

#45

Post by supercanuck » Wed, Oct 03, 2018, 6:11 PM UTC

dunpeal wrote: post #39

Harj wrote: post #2

In addition to already seeing an increasing number of engineers from both Seattle and Los Angeles applying to Triplebyte, two other trends drove our decision to open up in these two locations. First we've seen a continual drop in the number of Seattle based engineers who are willing to relocate to the Bay Area. It's dropped by over half since the start of the year and it's the first sustained drop we've seen since st…

> it makes me sad to see how it's becoming increasingly difficult for people to move here. I believe this is the biggest threat to Silicon Valley's dominance as the center of the technology industry Absolutely. Highest income tax in the nation, couple with some of the highest cost of living in the world. SV is in big trouble once more non-SV companies start paying comp that is competitive with SV. This is already hap…

Highest income tax in the nation didn’t stop it from growing to begin with.

Re: Triplebyte Now in Seattle and Los Angeles

#46

Post by pstuart » Wed, Oct 03, 2018, 6:18 PM UTC

VonGuard wrote: post #8

Ya'll sure spend a lot on Reddit ads, even my wife sees them, and she's not your target audience. Is this effective? honestly curious.

Indeed. I wish I could downvote those damn ads. Or at least comment on them how tired I am of them and have zero interest in them.

Re: Triplebyte Now in Seattle and Los Angeles

#47

Post by billyggruff » Wed, Oct 03, 2018, 6:23 PM UTC

51lver wrote: post #24

billyggruff wrote: post #22

Best of luck with your wifi deployments. In all seriousness, I had an interesting dealing with triplebyte regarding an internal job posting. Took an assesment, was sent a message of acceptance, followed shortly by a rejection. Felt 'weird'.

As someone who was also rejected even though I solved their challenges, I've got a feeling they are measuring the wrong stuff. The rejection said that I "didn't show the growth they are looking for". Maybe a fresh 2018 CS grad could do it? I don't know, I started out with qbasic on a 386...

Maybe they can correlate age with question+heuristics?

Re: Triplebyte Now in Seattle and Los Angeles

#48

Post by xenihn » Wed, Oct 03, 2018, 6:28 PM UTC

billyggruff wrote: post #23

xenihn wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that sharing an internet connection with someone means that you will see ads influenced by each other's network traffic, assuming you're going through the same router.

There are many 'identifiers', but commonly, at least, a long-living cookie that ties your browser session to ads, tracking, etc. More granular targeting, especially for portable devices that will change WAN IP.

Right, it's not the only identifier, but it's one of them, and you will "pollute" each other's targeted ads to an extent. I'm assuming some sort of adtech stuff is happening at the carrier/provider level as well, independent of your browser or individual browsing device.

Re: Triplebyte Now in Seattle and Los Angeles

#49

Post by walrus01 » Wed, Oct 03, 2018, 6:29 PM UTC

ticmasta wrote: post #41

walrus01 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a person in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle-Vancouver area) it would require a truly ridiculous amount of money to convince me to live in the SF Bay/South Bay area, and physically commute to an office 5 days a week. Considering the cost of California income taxes, housing costs, etc. Vancouver has an insane housing market but it is still possible to buy a nice 2BD condo in a concrete high-rise building for a relati…

>> Vancouver has an insane housing market but it is still possible to buy a nice 2BD condo in a concrete high-rise building for a relatively reasonable price, that a couple with two professional level salaries can afford. Yes, but is this the pinnacle we should aspire to reach? 2 professional salaries to eventually own a 2br condo somewhere in the lower mainland? Vancouver and Toronto have a comparable ratio of salar…

No, it's not ideal, but for my personal lifestyle choices I have no desire to deal with yard maintenance and tasks related to owning a regular single family home, whether in the city limits of Vancouver/Burnaby or in a suburb. I like being very close to the center of downtown and being able to walk most places, or take the Skytrain.

Vancouver is a much more pedestrian and transit friendly city than Seattle or anywhere else in the US outside of Manhattan.

When I compare what $700,000 (USD) buys in the south bay vs what $700,000 converted into Canadian at an exchange rate of 1.29 can buy, Vancouver still comes out way ahead.

Vancouver technology industry salaries are, sadly, significantly lower than Seattle or Bay area, or other large cities in the US (Chicago, Dallas, NY). There's a reason why so many Canadians leave to work in the US.

Re: Triplebyte Now in Seattle and Los Angeles

#50

Post by walrus01 » Wed, Oct 03, 2018, 6:33 PM UTC

ticmasta wrote: post #42

echevil wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, moving out of Bay Area sounds more and more reasonable now. I wonder if salaries in Vancouver would match that in Seattle. Both of them are very interesting cities to move to

from my experience you'll take a sizeable hit in salary moving from Seattle to Vancouver, before the exchange rate. The cost side is more comparable

This is accurate. The tech industry is really anemic in Vancouver, to the extent that people consider HootSuite a "big deal" and it's mentioned in the local media as an example of a big, successful company. The total number of employers with >15 staff doing something IT/Networking/Software Development/Internet related is a lot lower in Vancouver.