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Re: Ask HN: How do small companies do recruitment?

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Post by muzani »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #106
miklosme wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Every time the budget ends up being disappointing and about half my current income. Protip: on the very first call, say “My current salary is XY. A competing offer is in your budget?” Protip2: XY doesn’t have to be your actual salary, use a number that is your desired floor to start the negotiation from.

I get the impression that in the long term and on average, people benefit more from being honest. So how about just saying, "I'm currently only considering positions with salary XY. Is that in your budget?"

Often if I go job hunting, there's a 25%-250% increase in salary. The 250% is often some tiny startup in a developed nation, which comes with its own costs; no healthcare, dodgy contract, remote, etc. But the idea is that it's easy to just take -- or turn down, a range much higher than you make now.

Re: Ask HN: How do small companies do recruitment?

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Post by x0x0 »

lb1lf wrote: post #19

I work for a small-ish engineering firm on a small rock off the Norwegian coast. The local labour market for engineers, technicians and developers is pretty much empty - as in, everybody with the skills required and the desire to live here already does. Recruiting more often than not means sniping, or, if we're lucky - that someone has recently found a partner with desirable skills and coaxed them into moving up here…

Do you mind sharing the (rough) area? It sounds awesome :)

Re: Ask HN: How do small companies do recruitment?

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Post by lb1lf »

hutzlibu wrote: post #131
lb1lf wrote: post #72

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-We're at the other end of the stack, I'm afraid - Siemens S7 PLCs for the most part; whenever I code I basically write assembly code like it's 1979 - and it will never, ever be exposed to the web if I've got any say in the matter.

Ah well, you can use (allmost) all the web technologies completely offline and even interfacing with low level hardware. So you could have javascript and html to power your devices, but you probably do not want to.

That we can, but we do not want to. :)

We basically sold our soul to SIMATIC, Siemens' automation ecosystem long ago.

While it does have its quirks (to put it charitably), it is utterly predictable; as a first-order approximation, the ridiculously underpowered, ridiculously overpriced hardware never fails. (Unless you exert undue influence with a blunt object or high voltage)

I've (recently) patched code on Siemens PLCs being made in West Germany, that is, before October 1990. They still go about doing their thing. That kind of reliability makes me willing to suffer quite a lot of quirks.

Hence, STL, Siemens' near-assembly experience, it is. Snippet below:

A "InData".Joystick.WinchHoistCmd

  JCN   lowr
L "WinchDrumDb".SpeedExpCmd

L "WinchDrumSetupDb".Winch.MaxJoystickSpeedCmd

*R

T "WinchDrumDb".SpeedCmd

JU end2

At least it has mnemonics!

Re: Ask HN: How do small companies do recruitment?

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Post by lb1lf »

x0x0 wrote: post #142
lb1lf wrote: post #19

I work for a small-ish engineering firm on a small rock off the Norwegian coast. The local labour market for engineers, technicians and developers is pretty much empty - as in, everybody with the skills required and the desire to live here already does. Recruiting more often than not means sniping, or, if we're lucky - that someone has recently found a partner with desirable skills and coaxed them into moving up here…

Do you mind sharing the (rough) area? It sounds awesome :)

-Just a little north of the wall, at some 62N/6E.

Re: Ask HN: How do small companies do recruitment?

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Post by hutzlibu »

lb1lf wrote: post #145
hutzlibu wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah well, you can use (allmost) all the web technologies completely offline and even interfacing with low level hardware. So you could have javascript and html to power your devices, but you probably do not want to.

That we can, but we do not want to. :) We basically sold our soul to SIMATIC, Siemens' automation ecosystem long ago. While it does have its quirks (to put it charitably), it is utterly predictable; as a first-order approximation, the ridiculously underpowered, ridiculously overpriced hardware never fails. (Unless you exert undue influence with a blunt object or high voltage) I've (recently) patched code on Siemens P…

Yeah, I have heard of them(I think my dad used them back then even in east germany) and they are probably right for what you are doing and I am not suggesting, you switch to javascript.

But in other newly developed hardware, it can actually make sense nowdays, to use javascript. Mainly because you can get an abundance of developers for it, but then probably the hard part is to weed out those, who can barely script some website, to those who have indeed the right skillset.

If you are looking for STL people, you probably get STL people.

Re: Ask HN: How do small companies do recruitment?

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Post by x0x0 »

lb1lf wrote: post #146
x0x0 wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mind sharing the (rough) area? It sounds awesome :)

-Just a little north of the wall, at some 62N/6E.

Thank you for sharing!

Google returned these photos, which look both desolate and gorgeous: https://confluence.org/confluence.php?lat=62&lon=7

Particularly #5 here https://confluence.org/photo.php?visitid=6821&pic=5

Though in photo #6 that looks mountain fed, and she looks tough.

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