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This is brilliant! You could even get the hiring companies to pay your rent for the month if they get a hire :) Also, I imagine it will be interesting how pre-qualify the guest to make sure they are worthy candidates.
That's usually called a relocation bonus.
I think its launch is similar to airbnb's. Instead of making money, they aim to find talented people, far more valuable for startups that seek to find such talent (and who doesn't?). I hope this will be very successful :)
Wow badass. Hopefully this is still up and running when my current noncompete expires.
Stepping back a moment, I'm stunned and thankful to be an engineer in an environment where lots of people are willing to throw stuff like this at me in return for the possibility I might deign to work with them. Sure beats spamming dozens of companies with resumes and beating my way through hr.
Only slightly related, but something I've always wondered.. can a residential house the founders live in, and employees work in, be claimed as a legitimate business expense? I see this quite a lot in the US. I looked into it here in the UK and it doesn't work out particularly well tax-wise.
Put a TV in it and you're at risk of it being considered personal space.
I think it's possible to deduct a space as some fraction of the time used for work, but there may be a minimum threshold? I know it can work at 100%, but it's hard to prove 100% business usage -- and I've also heard that it's a tax audit trigger (as in, it raises your chance of being audited).
The site implies that you're not interested in remote employees, which is a shame; not everyone wants to live in California, and some people have an extended track record of successfully working remotely (ahem ;).
On one hand this seems pretty reasonable. I'm assuming you're going to be out between 20 and 40k if you use a recruiter in the bay area. You can play a lot of games like this if you have 20 to 40k. Reading between the lines it seems like they also select for single/childless people, unless you really expect people to show up with their spouse and children. Stepping back a moment, I'm stunned and thankful to be an eng…