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One big problem with blind is that it trends very junior. Much of what’s on there is of little used to people who are older. I actually find most of the comments to be less informed than, say, fuckedcompany.com was back in the day.
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~200K, inflation adjusted, is historically the salary of a competent senior software developer in the US. Give or take depending on location, so you can expect around this for remote (which doesn't suffer the same labor shortage pressure of some regions). A friend of mine told me he joined Microsoft right out of college in 1998 for 35K/year + 10% bonus. This is around 70K-80K today. As a Senior II Software Engineer a…
i mean the low paying jobs he refers to only pay like 100k, if your paying sr engineers and leads 100-150k you are being cheap when you consider how much value we provide. if you think engineers only provide maybe 200k dollars of value then sure pay 100k but i find that hard to believe
Companies outside the tech hubs, or companies where custom tech only provides incremental value to their business, will certainly pay less, and salaries closer to 100K are actually not that uncommon. They often don't even have the ability to accurately evaluate the skill set of a Senior Software Engineer. So what you call Senior and what they call Senior isn't the same thing.
I'm not saying that you should accept 100K, simply that the market is very diverse and we are past the excesses of the past.
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Can you link to an example of one of these companies. We're getting ready to start hiring again and I'm kind of worried about this.
BlueWillow.ai - the developer claims to have been a full time employee since 2021, but the company doesn't appear in marketing databases until March 2023, and the LinkedIn page has posts but nothing earlier than March. On the phone with the candidate, his ID "was at his brother's house". He also joined the call with the name "Senior Dev" rather than a real name. I asked him why he used a pseudonym, and he mumbled som…
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> How were they measuring productivity per employee? Productivity was ultimately measured by talking to the people and asking what they've been working on, what the challenges were, and why it was taking so long. When we'd talk to some of these people, they could barely come up with a story for what they had been doing all week. The metrics were used as an indicator of where to investigate, not as an ultimate measure…
"Story points" are exactly the kind of theater that is enabled when working in-person. Every in-person office I've worked at has been addicted to planning and estimating, because being in a meeting looks like work and is less stressful than pretending to work at your desk. It's an environment not conducive to actually shipping things that impact business success. Was your profit negatively impacted? Because if it was…
And then non-developers are shocked/confused when things don't pan out as exactly how they were written on Jira because we were spending all our time trying to guess our way through how to task things out and how long they'll take instead of just doing the work to figure out what needs to be done. And then we have to go back and fix up the Jira board later, causing even more work. It's insane.
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Yes! Good catch. The COVID years still all feel like 1 long year..
Lockdown for me (lived in NYC at the time) started in March of 2020. Curious what country you live in that Sept 2020 was "pre-pandemic" for you? It was already hitting hard in many countries by then.
They almost certainly meant September 2019.
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this sounds good on paper but how effective - really - are background checks outside the developed world? Even inside the developed world, language becomes a big stumbling block.
If you are so worried don’t hire remote. You get what you pay for.
But it’s quite common to get less than you paid for.
> on HN The most important subtext. There are engineer friends of mine laid off from remote companies that, almost 5 months later, cannot get work. These aren't braindead seatwarmers either. The software engineer market has shifted under our feet DRAMATICALLY. Any software engineer with a position should try to keep it for as long as they possible can.
people don't send me an offer after remote interviews people do send me an offer after in person interviews I have no problem getting callbacks and multiple rounds of interviews and busy work take home challenges just in case anyone else is having a similar experience, also interview at hybrid roles or offer to do an in person one
I never hear anything back about remote roles after the first round. In many cases a recruiter even has perfect roles that they say they submit me for but I never hear from them again.
On-site stuff tends to progress further, but usually they want one to move to a more expensive location, which I was desperately trying to avoid.
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Do you think it is front person for a dev shop or people who are partaking in the /r/overemployed movement?
(Original commenter here) our company has been victim of overemployment with 2 employees (the worst offender found us via Who's Hiring on HN - he had 3 full-time W-2 jobs). Having been fooled by 2 "overemployed" people (on a team of 20), these fake candidates are distinct in that they're almost always have an unexplained heavy accent yet they say they're born and raised in the US. They also often have Zoom background…
Would you exclude someone for successfully verifying their employment, but having an outdated LinkedIn profile?
The more I think about it the more it sounds like an EEOC violation.
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I'm pretty sure it's an EEO violation to request ID or a photo before hiring. "Similarly, employers should not ask for a photograph of an applicant. If needed for identification purposes, a photograph may be obtained after an offer of employment is made and accepted." https://www.eeoc.gov/prohibited-employment-policiespractices
Then how do Zoom meetings not violate this law? You’re literally receiving a stream of photos of the applicant before hiring them.
Check out EEOC enforcement actions and settlements, its better than the news