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

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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

Yeah, but the expansion is usually only in a handful of places like the Dublin, Amsterdam, Warsaw and that's about it. There really isn't a remote for Europe.

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

#52

What will you do about ghost jobs? For example I see Microsoft has a bunch of generic software engineer roles listed, despite them just doing huge layoffs. If they were actually hiring they could have easily shifted existing workers into those. These aren't highly specialized roles.

Lots of companies continue to hire even as they cut jobs. I would even say it is normal. Ghost jobs do also exist.

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

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post #48

How do these sort of aggregator sites work on legality of information? Copyright and terms of sites scraped etc

I’ve spent most of my career in Job Tech and HR Tech so I can give you some insight.

LinkedIn lost a lawsuit about specifically trying to prevent scraping of their job content. This was a big deal at the time as all the major job sites were scraping jobs either because a customer lacked technical capabilities or to add jobs that were not part of the corpus. It’s a routine part of how the industry works in the same way that not many complain about Google scraping the Internet.

Secondly, and actually more importantly, a lot of the industry exchanges jobs using feeds. This is where CPC job distribution generally exists. These can contain “free” jobs which do not get any CPC credit but would let you build something like this site without any scraping infrastructure. You can ask some major job boards for just the free jobs if you wanted that for some reason. Most job specific scraping services like Aspen and Feedonomics will deliver you scraped jobs in the your preferred feed format.

In practice where I’ve worked we just blocked scraping sites when we get a complaint and respected robots.txt. It was rare for someone to complain since we were good sources of traffic wherever I worked. I am not a lawyer but my understanding is that as long as you’re not otherwise breaking the law by respecting legitimate takedown notices then scraping is fair use.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your suggestion! I haven't looked into non-US countries yet, but that is a helpful pointer given India is the most populous country in the world now. I will keep this in mind. Are you based in India? How is the remote landscape there?

Yes I am an Indian and based in India. Everyone loves remote work here though ppl go to offices also but we are extremely family oriented ppl and tied to our ancestral properties. So remote is awesome. I have even more suggestions that for 2 months you can offer your services as an introductory offer at 1000 rupees and then after two months when enough ppl have joined you can switch it up to 20k rupees especially for…

Or maybe you should build it you seem to know the India market well.

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

#57
The first job I clicked on said this in the actual ad. This is a far cry from a remote job. The aggregator needs a little more tweaking:

This role is based out of Reddit's office located in San Francisco.

We will only consider candidates currently located in San Francisco, or currently within close commuting distance to the SF office.

The role requires in-office work 4 days per week.

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

#59

What will you do about ghost jobs? For example I see Microsoft has a bunch of generic software engineer roles listed, despite them just doing huge layoffs. If they were actually hiring they could have easily shifted existing workers into those. These aren't highly specialized roles.

Lots of companies continue to hire even as they cut jobs. I would even say it is normal. Ghost jobs do also exist.

> Ghost jobs do also exist.

I don’t know about that. A lot of times companies will already have someone they want but they have to post a job listing for X days before they can fulfill it.

Full time hire process can take a long time and is why contract to hire can get you in the door faster.

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

#60
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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

You forgot "Building time tracking apps" I'm seeing even more of this effect lately among young vibe coders. Not saying it's a bad thing, I'm saying: It's reached the point where it's easier to build your own app than search/decide/choose an existing one.

But do they actually use those todo lists and time tracking apps? For example I use iOS and for me setting up alarms works much better than "Reminders".
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