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Re: Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job

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Post by Glawen »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #196
Scarblac wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm quite sure the five weeks he mentioned don't include official holidays. In the Netherlands it's also five weeks on top of a number of official holidays, and we gave the lowest number of those in the EU (7 iirc, some of which may be weekend Sat's in some years, like Christmas now). Of course good companies typically don't offer only the minimum.

In France you get 5-8 weeks of vacation that are counted in addition to the official days off. In general you work 272 days a year and the rest is vacation and days off (this is also the reason we get a different amount of days off every year). I have about 40 working days off, of which the company can choose the dates of 10.

It's 218 working days in some union contracts (convention collective) usually, and 216 in Alsace.

Re: Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job

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Post by pb7 »

srb4 wrote: post #228
intuitionist wrote: post #197

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I think many people on HN may be too young to remember the early 2000s, when you’d kill someone for your stock price to be down only 60% over 3 years, but it absolutely happens to good companies too.

I thought I was going to be rich with my first job at a startup out of college but the dot com bust basically made it all worthless. Stock is great but cash would have been better.

What would you have done with the cash? Hold it? That’s how the poor stay poor.

Re: Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job

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Post by rgcase »

baobabKoodaa wrote: post #279
alisonkisk wrote: post #204

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When you get an offer of $100K cash + $100K in stock, that's before appreciation. So 3 years from now your equity is appreciated but your cash is not, so you get $225K in cash equivalent.

This is false. If you immediately exchanged your cash to stock (as I specified in the post that you are replying to) then 3 years from now your "cash" option is worth exactly the same as your "cash + stock" option.

This is wrong. It would be true if you received all the cash in a lump sum as soon as you're hired, and you used it to buy stock, but if your cash "vests" in the same way as equity typically does then you'd lose out on the opportunity for it to appreciate before vesting like shares can.

Re: Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job

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Post by pb7 »

baobabKoodaa wrote: post #276
deagle50 wrote: post #210

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As soon as your RSU vests, you can sell it for cash. Most companies offer an auto-sell option that works even during restricted windows. With a good vesting schedule, it's almost identical.

Sure, almost identical, but in the direction where cash is always AT LEAST AS GOOD as stock. Not in the other direction.

It’s not at least as good as stock, it’s worse in most markets. Because your stock is appreciating before you’re allowed to sell it but the cash is depreciating to inflation.

Re: Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job

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Post by 1991g »

lr1970 wrote: post #381
oerpli wrote: post #372

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If you lie about having a job this can be found out (they can call the place) If you omit one or several jobs, I don't know how they would know (call all places to see if you also worked there?).

> I don't know how they would know (call all places to see if you also worked there?). It can be tracked during your background check (using SSN). They will make you sign a form that you authorize them to perform such a check. Fail to sign the form - job offer is rescinded. Again, depends on employer.

> It can be tracked during your background check (using SSN). They will make you sign a form that you authorize them to perform such a check.

Can you show me a background check service that offers a list of previous employers found by SSN? I did not know that exists. Unless they're consulting the IRS, I don't know how it could exist.

Background checks as I understand them, tend to check things like: credit score, contacting references (that you provide), criminal records etc. Primarily publicly available information.

Re: Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job

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Post by pb7 »

baobabKoodaa wrote: post #279
alisonkisk wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you get an offer of $100K cash + $100K in stock, that's before appreciation. So 3 years from now your equity is appreciated but your cash is not, so you get $225K in cash equivalent.

This is false. If you immediately exchanged your cash to stock (as I specified in the post that you are replying to) then 3 years from now your "cash" option is worth exactly the same as your "cash + stock" option.

No one is giving you 4 years of paychecks on day 1. But they do grant 4 years of equity that is appreciating while you’re waiting for it to vest. That’s the difference. Cash is worse.

Re: Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job

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Post by yosito »

deagle50 wrote: post #199
yosito wrote: post #174

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> any private unicorn or public tech company (the ones that get media coverage) Can you give some example companies?

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, etc.

IIRC these companies aren't really hiring remote.

Re: Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job

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Post by mgaunard »

cma wrote: post #307
lotsofpulp wrote: post #260

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> The magnitude of latency isn't rewarded, just coming in first, so more and is spent on less an less absolute improvements, none of which have been relevant to human reaction times for decades. So why are the HFT firms earning profits? There is no law that says people are obligated to do business with them. There is no law that says people have to buy at the prices HFT firms are selling at and sell at the prices HFT…

If someone come in and beats them by .001ns they get all their profits. Is .001ns really worth that reward? The utility provided is mostly detached from the reward, it is just winner gets it.

Not all markets are deterministic, in some there is some level of jitter so fastest guy doesn't always win anyway. Some markets also take steps to prevent the speed game too in how they define the rules.

While for obvious big moves it might be all about latency, most events are more about the quality of your pricing, incorporating correlated information, edge requirement and risk management that decides what you go for and what you don't, and for those smarter trades you usually have microseconds to spare.

Re: Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job

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Post by Slow_Hand »

throwawayboise wrote: post #324
jason-phillips wrote: post #290

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I agree. I'm 50 and don't feel as though the sun has set on my usefulness yet. I'm definitely experiencing more demand than ever. My personal philosophy is similar and I very much love the work I do. 1. My role is to help the team. 2. Stay humble. There is always a better way to do something and we're very lucky to be in our position. 3. Practice not talking. Let others have the experience of figuring it out for them…

I'm 55. I'm tired of learning. I've been learning for 30+ years of professional software work, and none of it applies to any new jobs I might want to seek (I'm talking about specific languages, platforms, buzzwords, etc.) The pace of change is faster than the average person can keep up with and still be competent. I can see that by the time I retire, the knowledge I have spent my adult life acquiring will be useless…

> I can see that by the time I retire, the knowledge I have spent my adult life acquiring will be useless historical trivia. It's depressing.

Is that so bad? I expect the more important thing are the results that the learning allowed you to render. If the knowledge has a half-life but you contributed to or built something meaningful that endures, isn't that what matters? The knowledge and skills are like the scaffolding that allow you to arrive at a certain height or build something of value. And at the end they can be taken away and you're left with the fruits.

Unless, of course, your intention is to have knowledge that you can pass on to future generations via writing/training.

Re: Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job

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Post by cj »

hermannj314 wrote: post #270
cj wrote: post #252

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Were you and your parents working 2 jobs on non-conflicting schedules? I think is perfectly acceptable to work 6-2pm and 2pm-8pm for 2 employers. But I don’t think it’s ethical to work 2 jobs where the hours are overlapping not on a staggered schedule. > Have you ever had to work two jobs Yes, when starting my startup. I woke up at 5am, worked until 9am on my startup, went to my day job and worked a full 8 hours, the…

This is a great story. So when the original poster suggested working 2 jobs, you didn't tell the story about how you worked two jobs to build your own business and how it is a great idea that brought you success, you instead told the story about how you fired a guy that worked two+ jobs. I guess that blows my mind, you have a great origin story. It seems we agree on more than I realize, we just assumed very different…

> you worked two jobs to build your own business and how it is a great idea that brought you success, you instead told the story about how you fired a guy that worked two+ jobs

The take away that I’m trying to communicate (and clearly not doing a good job at) is pretty simple: have integrity, be honest, and act ethically.

Avoid exploiting, lying, and misleading.

If your employer is cool with you working multiple jobs and you’re honest about it with everyone involved, by all means, go for it!

Just my opinion. Pretty simple. I’m just advocating for people to act ethically.

I mean just read this blog post on Overemployed, having been on the other end of that as an employer, it’s infuriating seeing people jeopardizing their whole career and reputation for a few extra bucks: https://overemployed.com/overemployed-journal-week-2-elhapo8...

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