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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 deadbabe »

the_real_cher wrote: post #80
koliber wrote: post #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.

Its an aggregator which means its probably not perfect as its looking for keywords or something.

It’s trivial to run these posts through LLMs these days and filter out jobs that aren’t fully remote. Pure Laziness.

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

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Post by mandevil »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #72

I feel like there's a huge disconnect between salaries, job titles, and years of experience. 6/7 years experience and you're eligible for a staff software developer position at $500K a year? I've got 15 and still on 5 figures / year. In Euros, sure, but there's a huge disconnect there. I find it weird that these companies don't have more offices in Europe, given they can easily out-compete any local companies on sala…

A great, detailed explanation of what you are seeing: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala... (and the other two parts of the series)

The most important point is that your compensation is far more sensitive to getting onto the next curve up than it is tied to your experience or your work at your current company.

This is why so many people say "Grind Leetcode, get into FAANG" as the goal in software engineering, because (at least until recently) being in FAANG even as a junior SWE pretty much guaranteed you were in the second or third curve, and once you were accepted into that curve you would generally find jobs in that same curve. With the way the software engineering job market has changed, I'm not sure that's true any more, but as recently as 2023 it was the rule of thumb.

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

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Post by kypro »

briandear wrote: post #47
Herring wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Be careful what you wish for, unless you want tech oligarchs messing with your governments as well.

So low salaries in Europe are because they lack oligarchs?

I'm not agreeing with the parent comment, but I've long held the opinion that one of the the reasons the US is so much more economically successful than Europe is because businesses have so much more influence over government.

This is viewed negatively in general (perhaps rightly), but I think it does provide some balance between the incentives of wealth creation and workers. For example, here in the UK we'll happily regulate entire sectors of the economy out of business every year, but in the US attempts to do this would be met with huge multi-million dollar lobbying campaigns.

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

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Post by gwbas1c »

confidantlake wrote: post #49

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.

> If they were actually hiring they could have easily shifted existing workers into those.

I wouldn't assume that it's appropriate to shift people in a layoff to new roles within a company. I remember, when working at Intel, that some people were given opportunity (and preference) to apply to internal roles before being asked to leave.

That being said, not everyone is a good fit to transition to open roles. Other times, a certain amount of headcount turnover is healthy. (I personally felt like a lot of Intel's woes were due to the organization being too insular; and a certain amount of turnover would have helped them.)

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

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Post by nsteel »

xitang wrote: post #16
icameron wrote: post #14

This is awesome, thanks. I’m currently employed but this is nice to see what’s out there at a glance. How do you calculate/know the total compensation? Like the base pay matches the info in the Airbnb opportunity but the total compensation is nearly double the base pay range amount, but isn’t quantified in the posting itself.

Thank you for your kind words! I have this question on the faq page and am attaching the answer below: 4. Where are the salary data sourced from? Tech companies typically structure salary, often called total compensation, into 3 parts: base salary, equity, and bonus. Base salary is pulled directly from each job post, thanks to the U.S. Pay Transparency laws (e.g. California SB-1162 in 2011), which require companies t…

It feels odd that Europe has taken so long to come up with equivalent pay transparency legislation (due 2026). And of course, it's an EU directive, which means in the UK we won't get it.

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

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Post by jppope »

jobswithgptcom wrote: post #88

Cool! I had recently built something similar https://listofremotejobs.com because I was similarly frustrated. Uses gpt-4 to parse locations but still a bit noisy.

nice site. it would be nice to have the salary info and some filters, but either way solid build

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

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Post by jppope »

Aurornis wrote: post #64
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.

> Context: Was a senior SWE in SF for Airbnb until 2020. Working in San Francisco, in-person/hybrid, at a company that ranks among the top of the industry is always going to pay higher than remote jobs hiring anywhere. Part of the goal of remote hiring is to expand the candidate pool, which reduces the need to hire at exorbitant salaries in small, highly competitive markets. People complain about remote workers getti…

lots of people moved too

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

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Post by jobswithgptcom »

jppope wrote: post #96
jobswithgptcom wrote: post #88

Cool! I had recently built something similar https://listofremotejobs.com because I was similarly frustrated. Uses gpt-4 to parse locations but still a bit noisy.

nice site. it would be nice to have the salary info and some filters, but either way solid build

Thx, the main site https://jobswithgpt.com is more extensive to search but I need to parse the salary info a bit more to make it searchable. It is way too noisy currently..

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

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Post by xitang »

koliber wrote: post #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.

Thanks so much for noting this! This is a big miss with the current filtering logic. I will get it fix next. This is my fault as I notice most positions in reddit are remote so I falsely assume that it is a remote company. They are hybrid it seems.

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

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Post by rangestransform »

martin_a wrote: post #56
najmlion wrote: post #23

I wish these salaries existed for Europe

Never forget that taxing and social systems in Europe work very different and that's why you can get by with "lower" incomes.

It also means that taxation at higher incomes is significantly more oppressive
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