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Post by eddd-ddde »

junar wrote: post #325
moomoo11 wrote: post #302

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Is it allowed to put “must be US citizen”. Honestly as an American I would much prefer to hire Americans from Midwest or Texas, than someone outside my country.

Requiring that an applicant is legally authorized to work in the US is allowed. Requiring that they be a US citizen is not. https://www.eeoc.gov/pre-employment-inquiries-and-citizenshi...

As a non US citizen this has always confused me. Does this mean that to get the job I need to be authorised to work in the US? Or that I will need to be authorised once I get the job?

Can I apply in hopes of moving to the US? Or in which situation would a non citizen be authorised to work?

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Post by ericbarrett »

cj wrote: post #305
makestuff wrote: post #291

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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…

> the best counter-offense I've found is to require LinkedIn profiles

Having your current employer on LinkedIn drastically raises your chance of being spear-phished—something to keep in mind.

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Post by blub »

bluefishinit wrote: post #257
Aurornis wrote: post #214

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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…

Story points must be calibrated by the team for themselves which seems to be the case based on statements from the original poster. If the velocity goes down, the team is getting less work done.

Using profit to measure developer productivity on the other hand is utter nonsense; not even the most clueless manager would come up with such an idea.

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Post by horns4lyfe »

addisonl wrote: post #234
zer8k wrote: post #98

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Honestly, I'd take 100k TC for a position to keep remote. One caveat, I will be working at 20% of my actual mental capacity. Frequent vacations, using sick time as often as possible, etc. I would not take on anything resembling pagerduty and I wouldn't try to lead anything . Then I'll leave for any job with higher TC. Malicious compliance is the best kind of compliance and is the only way to respond to a lop-sided ne…

And people wonder why companies don’t like remote work…

Because they can’t pay low prices for great work? Is this bad?

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Post by [deleted] »

sublinear wrote: post #369
cj wrote: post #305

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(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…

I understand background checks aren't perfect, but surely it's better than LinkedIn. 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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Post by horns4lyfe »

indymike wrote: post #297

I've been interviewing for a two dev positions, and from the employer side here is what I'm seeing: 1. 31% of applicants are dev shop / staffing co lead generation / fraudulent applications. This is pretty normal. I'm sure the that this works enough to make it work for the people selling contract developers. 2. 17% of applicants cannot work in the US. We disclose you must be legal to work in the US and what visas are…

The Sr vs Jr makes sense. To me, the entire discussion can be distilled down to people with families that want remote, and younger single people that don’t realize that they’ll eventually want remote and will regret it.

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Post by flir »

sigstoat wrote: post #317
iamzamek wrote: post #307

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Hey, what do you think - how can we "repair" this process? I mean, what would be a perfect solution to not require photo ID verification video and get rid of scammers?

fly new hires some place and make them work in person with somebody for a week. i think remote work is great, but some early face to face can fix a bunch of problems imo.

Pre-Covid I worked in a team that onshored off-shore team members for about six weeks at a time. It worked really well for everyone involved.

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Post by horns4lyfe »

tacocataco wrote: post #173

People should get paid for their commute. With compensation for gas and wear and tear on the car. Support for return to the office would vaporize instantly. Less pollution, less traffic, less wear on the roads, lives saved and injuries avoided. You want people to come into the office? Pay for the privilege.

Engineers need to stand up for it. The commute is part of your work day, so leave at an appropriate time. Tacking on an extra hour to your work day is ridiculous, leave earlier and get in later.

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Post by flir »

Aurornis wrote: post #235
baristaGeek wrote: post #196

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Accent aside (if they can't be understood at all they're obviously not qualified): What's the difference between a foreigner with an accent in your onsite team VS a foreigner that's remote in US timezones (LatAm)? Why just open the job for US-remote? Compliance? Deel/Remote can help you with that. Security? It applies if you're working on defense software, but other than that...?

> What's the difference between a foreigner with an accent in your onsite team VS a foreigner that's remote in US timezones (LatAm)? If I give someone in the US access to my code, systems, and, inevitably, customer data then I have a lot of legal recourse against that person if they do something bad. They have a lot of incentive to be careful and follow the rules. Their desire to maintain their reputation and avoid l…

> and, inevitably, customer data

That's not inevitable (for programmers, at least). Post-GDPR European developers generally keep well away from customer data, and it isn't a big impediment.

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Post by rjbwork »

solarmist wrote: post #359
rjbwork wrote: post #183

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Yeah my company has posted a couple of times and despite saying US only, we only got people from SEA and Eastern Europe...so we stopped posting.

Does the location it's posted really affect that significantly? Isn't it similar to any job board?

Not quite sure quite what you're asking. But I think, yes it affects it, we can't hire people outside of the US and given we got no candidates we could feasibly employ, it doesn't make sense to continue posting.
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