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Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by Thorrez »

welder wrote: post #28

Wow, salaries have gone DOWN since I last worked as IC! Context: Was a senior SWE in SF for Airbnb until 2020. Now I'm seeing Principle engineer positions with lower base salary than I had 5 years ago.

Remote salaries will generally be lower than SF salaries.

Cost of living adjusted though, they may be higher.

Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by xitang »

najmlion wrote: post #23

I wish these salaries existed for Europe

One good news is that US remote companies have been expanding to Europe, which will drive up salaries there over time to attract top talents. Gergely Orosz's Trimodal Nature of Tech Compensation in the US, UK and India has info on top paying companies in UK: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/trimodal

Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by xitang »

welder wrote: post #28

Wow, salaries have gone DOWN since I last worked as IC! Context: Was a senior SWE in SF for Airbnb until 2020. Now I'm seeing Principle engineer positions with lower base salary than I had 5 years ago.

Did you join Airbnb before its IPO perhaps? I suppose pre-IPO companies usually offer higher base since their equities can't be liquidated until post-IPO.

Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by welder »

xitang wrote: post #33
welder wrote: post #28

Wow, salaries have gone DOWN since I last worked as IC! Context: Was a senior SWE in SF for Airbnb until 2020. Now I'm seeing Principle engineer positions with lower base salary than I had 5 years ago.

Did you join Airbnb before its IPO perhaps? I suppose pre-IPO companies usually offer higher base since their equities can't be liquidated until post-IPO.

Yes, must be that and the remote aspect.

Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by xitang »

SCUSKU wrote: post #15
dewey wrote: post #13

Things software engineers will never get tired of: - Building job boards - Building static site generators - Building todo list apps - Building "personal knowledge base" type apps

Personally I have checked 3/4 boxes here, and actively working on a job board currently for fun... At least for a job board, it feels like it is useful, and also ultimately not that complex a piece of software. Which is nice for doing some light coding as opposed to things I usually deal with at work.

+1 to this! I have tons of fun while building this job board and having to refactor my code multiple times to generalize a pattern that can pull jobs from various sites. It is so fun to dig into some readings on the trimodal nature of tech compensation and pay transparency laws in the US. Plus it is a helpful site for folks like you said.

What type of job board are you building btw? Does it focus on a niche?

Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by aziaziazi »

xitang wrote: post #11
mixmastamyk wrote: post #10

Please remove the unnecessary animation that locked up a tab here for several seconds.

Thanks for the feedback. I think the lag might have been mainly due to the page loading and rendering 400+ job rows at once and is not related to the animation, though there might also be some hydration issues with the animation. Agree that the lag isn't good UX, I will look into getting it fixed soon. Aside from the lag, I was hoping folks might appreciate the artistic of the animations where companies are resolving…

Seems correct. I might not use you average-user-device (iPhone SE 2016) but liked your idea and clicked the link. The page freeze for ~15s for the first load but then refresh only takes ~4s. The animation is smooth if I’m not scrolling the list. Scrolling seems hard to handle as the new items takes 2s to appear. Do you use a virtual table [edit: just read you sibling comment saying you don’t, yet] or heavy JS for styling the list? I usually have no problem scrolling long text lists. Another guess would be the logos size but I’m not in my computer to check it out. For context: I know my device is old but it handles fine most sites that don’t have too many ads, js shenanigans or super heavy assets.

Kudos to you, I’m sure my 2012 mbp will handle it fine though :-)

Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by xitang »

dewey wrote: post #30
xitang wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have built various stuffs in the past few years and have came to appreciate more and more on things that will never get tired of. It can be a good indication that the problem spaces are large and remain unsolved as well as the opportunities. In such case, there are always rooms for anyone to come in to innovate and put their own spin to it. This is sometimes better than working on something that few or barely anyon…

> What is an example of "personal knowledge base" type app? There's one on the front page right now, keyword "Obsidian" ;)

Thanks, I see :)

I might have built part of a "personal knowledge base" type app by rolling up a custom editor before, so 1.5 boxes check.

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