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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 xitang »

Havoc wrote: post #48

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

The goal of the companies and recruiters is to fill open positions with qualified candidate asap, hence why some would even pay job boards to promote their jobs or offer referral bonus. So my take is that companies would love job boards like this to freely advertise their positions to folks who might not otherwise come across these positions and increase their top of funnels. So in this case, the incentive of aggregators and companies are aligned and it is a win-win situation for both.

I don't know why a company might not want to partake in this, but would be happy to take it down upon their request if they like to make it more difficult for candidates to stump upon their openings.

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

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Post by yieldcrv »

__turbobrew__ wrote: post #103
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…

6/7 years for staff (at a FAANG) is exceptional, I have personally never seen it. From what I have seen staff eng tend to be around 10 years of experience at the low end. > have more offices in Europe This has been hashed a million times: 1. Time zones 2. Lack of candidates building FAANG scale systems 3. Employment laws are hostile to employers That being said, I have seen a lot of recruitment in Poland lately. It m…

Switzerland also has some high comp, and from FAANGs

European countries that reduce some exposure to the Eurozone and have values more similar to American ones, attract American companies

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

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Post by xitang »

Moto7451 wrote: post #54
Havoc wrote: 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 wa…

Thanks for sharing the industry insights! Very cool to learn about CPC job distribution, etc.

I have also read the LinkedIn vs. hiQ Labs lawsuit. The ruling is significant because the court finds that scraping public data did not violate the CFAA, though it violated LinkedIn's tos. LinkedIn ultimately wins at the end because hiQ was bankrupted. One of my take away is to scrape responsibly by rate limiting the requests and not overloading the server, etc

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

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Post by xitang »

shadowgovt wrote: post #82

Good work. It occurs to me to wonder: is it going to end up being a general rule that SWE jobs that can be done remotely are going to pay less than SWE jobs that require specific geographic location or coming into the office over time? It feels like the naive supply-demand calculation suggests that a company willing to accept remote work has a much broader talent supply to draw from, which would lower labor cost.

Thanks for you kind words!

Some remote companies such as Atlassian, Affirm, Dropbox have different pay zones to offset the cost of living in various places.

For example, in Atlassian https://www.atlassian.com/company/careers/resources/intervie..., the 3 pay zones are - Zone A: SF - Zone B: Boston, LA, NYC, Sacramento, San Diego, Seattle, Washington D.C. - Zone C: all others Zone B is 90% of Zone A's pay and Zone C is ~82% of Zone A's pay.

Agree that company willing to accept remote work has a broader talent supply and can be an advantage in hiring talents not in the big tech cities. I am not sure if it necessarily lead to lower labor cost due to competitions with other remote companies also hiring in those regions. Competitions would help keep the labor cost up.

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

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Post by xitang »

scarface_74 wrote: post #44

If you’re looking at a job board for remote jobs and blindly submitting a resume in 2025, you’ve already lost. There are probably thousands of people applying and it’s like a lottery ticket whether you will stand out enough for your resume to even be seen unless they are looking for a specialized skillset. No full stack or front end development is not specialized.

I would say yes and no.

A key goal of the job board is to allow candidates to see which companies are hiring and which positions are open. This is the most important thing to start with.

What strategy a person use to apply would vary. An experience individual would reach out to their contacts who work in those companies for a referral or find ways to reach out the hiring recruiter or manager to increase their odds of success/interview for reasons you said due to high competitions and candidate pools. On the other hand, for companies actively hiring and with many openings, e.g. Coinbase at the moment, a simple cold apply works just fine to get you to the door of interview.

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

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Post by xitang »

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…

Do you work in a tech company or non-tech company?

I have a related question and answer in the FAQ page and am attaching it here:

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3. What does “best paying” mean?

Different types of company pay software engineer at different bands. The best paying companies are usually tech companies, where tech is the core competency of the business and software engineers are first class citizens who play a key role in building the core products, e.g. FAANG, Dropbox, Pinterest, etc. These companies pay top of market to attract top talents and build high quality software.

This differs from non-tech companies whose core competencies aren’t necessary tech but other areas. For example, a newspaper company like NY Times values editorial content over software, and an information provider like WebMD values medical expertise more.

Tech companies pay 2-3x more than non-tech companies for similar roles, and they are the focus of the RemoteSWE.fyi listing.

To learn more about compensation differences across the industry, Gergely Orosz’s Trimodal Nature of Tech Compensation is a great resource.

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

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Post by scarface_74 »

xitang wrote: post #117
scarface_74 wrote: post #44

If you’re looking at a job board for remote jobs and blindly submitting a resume in 2025, you’ve already lost. There are probably thousands of people applying and it’s like a lottery ticket whether you will stand out enough for your resume to even be seen unless they are looking for a specialized skillset. No full stack or front end development is not specialized.

I would say yes and no. A key goal of the job board is to allow candidates to see which companies are hiring and which positions are open. This is the most important thing to start with. What strategy a person use to apply would vary. An experience individual would reach out to their contacts who work in those companies for a referral or find ways to reach out the hiring recruiter or manager to increase their odds of…

> On the other hand, for companies actively hiring and with many openings, e.g. Coinbase at the moment, a simple cold apply works just fine to get you to the door of interview.

With hundreds if not thousands (not exaggerating) of candidates?

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