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Re: Form letter response for engineering recruiting emails

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Post by muratmutlu » Thu, Jul 18, 2013, 9:48 PM UTC

benawabe896 wrote: post #2

Why is there not some way to disrupt this industry??? It is maddening that these people even exist. How is normal to take 35% of someone's salary for 6 months because you got to them first at the right time? How is it ethical to whittle a starry eyed junior down to 30 bucks an hour so you can take 60 or 70 plus? There has to be a way simpler way to connect folks to jobs in this day and age. ...Sorry, it just gets to…

I wrote a post about the startups trying to change things in this space http://www.mobileinc.co.uk/2013/04/designers-making-moves-to...

Re: Form letter response for engineering recruiting emails

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Post by rjbwork » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 3:14 AM UTC

benawabe896 wrote: post #2

Why is there not some way to disrupt this industry??? It is maddening that these people even exist. How is normal to take 35% of someone's salary for 6 months because you got to them first at the right time? How is it ethical to whittle a starry eyed junior down to 30 bucks an hour so you can take 60 or 70 plus? There has to be a way simpler way to connect folks to jobs in this day and age. ...Sorry, it just gets to…

shrug I'm a starry eyed junior whittled to 30 bucks an hour, but I had better offers on the table that didn't come from recruitment firms.

I don't feel particularly screwed because I'm going to be getting raises over time, especially if I decide to hop out of my first job at year 3 or 4.

55-60k really isn't a bad place to be in many locations. I can't imagine it in some of the traditional startup places like the SF Bay area, Boston, or Seattle area though.

Re: Form letter response for engineering recruiting emails

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Post by Ecio78 » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 7:42 AM UTC

philip1209 wrote: post #47

Ecio78 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

quick note for you: in your hn profile you say "graduating May 2013". According to the about on your site http://www.philipithomas.com/about/ you graduated in May, but on your cv site http://cv.philipithomas.com/ you say "I graduate this month" and in education you say "expected 5/13" If you finally graduated, it's time to update all the info :-)

Whoops, thanks. I'll update the profile now. Because I'm not seeking work, I've been a little lazy with my CV.

np, because I am actually seeking work, I've been overly active on my CV and so I was looking for inspiration :) (or :( if we want to consider that i've not found anything yet..)