WEB DEVELOPER (DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES) • Hacker News Board

Re: WEB DEVELOPER (DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES)

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Post by McRask » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 4:45 PM UTC

All this is missing is an experience requirement for longer than some technology has existed.

Re: WEB DEVELOPER (DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES)

#12

Post by larrymcp » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 4:45 PM UTC

I enjoyed "Must multitask by helping answering phones" too.

Re: WEB DEVELOPER (DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES)

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Post by base698 » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 4:47 PM UTC

rjuyal wrote: post #7

Serious! Is this the average hourly rate for a web dev in Los Angeles?

It's off by about an order by magnitude.

Re: WEB DEVELOPER (DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES)

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Post by tommccabe » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 4:47 PM UTC

Don't forget your two references.

Re: WEB DEVELOPER (DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES)

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Post by mehrzad » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 4:47 PM UTC

rjuyal wrote: post #7

Serious! Is this the average hourly rate for a web dev in Los Angeles?

It is not. I made more than this as an intern [in high school at the time] in nice parts of LA at very small firms.

Re: WEB DEVELOPER (DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES)

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Post by RoryH » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 4:48 PM UTC

carsongross wrote: post #9

Once again, we see the terrible effects of there being not enough technical talent here in the United States. As we are constantly told by the VCs and large tech firms, we need to open up the green card immigration program to allow developers in who will do the jobs that Americans just won't do. Like, for example, being a full stack web developer who does QA, customer support and data scrubbing for 12 bucks an hour w…

Same shit different country (Ireland)... this is very much an international problem, and the reason why software is a good career choice IMO.

Re: WEB DEVELOPER (DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES)

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Post by andrewstuart2 » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 4:48 PM UTC

carsongross wrote: post #9

Once again, we see the terrible effects of there being not enough technical talent here in the United States. As we are constantly told by the VCs and large tech firms, we need to open up the green card immigration program to allow developers in who will do the jobs that Americans just won't do. Like, for example, being a full stack web developer who does QA, customer support and data scrubbing for 12 bucks an hour w…

I do agree with you, but to be fair, this is only a single post, likely from some company that either has no idea what they're doing or is deliberately interested in exploiting someone in desperate need of a job.

Re: WEB DEVELOPER (DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES)

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 4:49 PM UTC

carsongross wrote: post #9

Once again, we see the terrible effects of there being not enough technical talent here in the United States. As we are constantly told by the VCs and large tech firms, we need to open up the green card immigration program to allow developers in who will do the jobs that Americans just won't do. Like, for example, being a full stack web developer who does QA, customer support and data scrubbing for 12 bucks an hour w…

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Re: WEB DEVELOPER (DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES)

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Post by mehrzad » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 4:50 PM UTC

carsongross wrote: post #9

Once again, we see the terrible effects of there being not enough technical talent here in the United States. As we are constantly told by the VCs and large tech firms, we need to open up the green card immigration program to allow developers in who will do the jobs that Americans just won't do. Like, for example, being a full stack web developer who does QA, customer support and data scrubbing for 12 bucks an hour w…

I get you're being sarcastic, but I've heard that immigration doesn't actually have an deliberate effect on wages.

Re: WEB DEVELOPER (DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES)

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Post by akcreek » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 4:51 PM UTC

rjuyal wrote: post #7

Serious! Is this the average hourly rate for a web dev in Los Angeles?

My ecommerce business is based out of Los Angeles and our shipping clerk gets that. I wish he knew a dozen programming languages... unfortunately he is still training on email. He can pack the hell out of a box though.