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Engineers who find it distasteful should be happy to know engineers typically get way more equity than sales reps. That isn't true. Early sales employees ('customer success', 'technical sales', 'growth', maybe product roles) get just as much equity as engineers who join at a similar time. The difference is that engineers often join earlier, with the commensurate risk that comes with. Also equity rarely pays out so yo…
Technical sales and customer growth also don’t get the cut of sales that usually the actual sales reps do. In general i think sales reps make more money overall but have a much more stressful job and can get axed whenever they underperform for a quarter etc
Engineers can also be axed at any time for performance. They're fortunate that most companies are bad at measuring that, but they're also subject to things like stack ranking at very bad companies (fire worst 10% every year) so it's certainly not better to be in eng rather than sales.
Ultimately all roles have aspects of them that suck, so you need to find the one that sucks least for you.
> To the companies: You don’t need HackerOne anymore. The tokens to build your own in-house platform cost less than single year of HackerOne. You know, the biggest thing that HackerOne delivers is a universal payments system that requires absolutely no efforts from companies. Have you tried to manually pay hackers from around the world? It is a laborious process involving trying to find what providers are compatible…
That said, with the volume of inbound reports coming from LLMs, the signal-to-noise ratio has plummeted, and the time taken to triage has gone through the roof.
> To the companies: You don’t need HackerOne anymore. The tokens to build your own in-house platform cost less than single year of HackerOne. You know, the biggest thing that HackerOne delivers is a universal payments system that requires absolutely no efforts from companies. Have you tried to manually pay hackers from around the world? It is a laborious process involving trying to find what providers are compatible…
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> Good luck recalling a wrong crpyto transaction. No better than recalling a wrong bank transfer or Zelle transaction.
Wrong bank transfers can't get recalled? I know I disputed a debit card transaction and got my money back the other month
But anyway, the point is that it tells you every single time you send a transfer that way to be careful, because you can't undo a transfer after it's been sent. I'm assuming it's the same for most methods of bank transfer? I mean, debit transactions are surely a different beast.
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Just pay them in stable coins. That's a solved problem.
It's not just the transfer of cash. It's also complying with tax and employment laws in the country the hacker is in, to the satisfaction of your legal and finance teams. Sure, in western-style legal systems you can call them a contractor and they can pay their own tax. Just don't employ them full time for long enough to trigger 'sham contract' rules that would make them employees. But your corporate legal team doesn…
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Also PITA for people as well, we have a 33% tax on crypto selling here in Italy on profits…
stablecoins arent crypto in EU anymore, its e-money. No tax on converting to euros.
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Wrong bank transfers can't get recalled? I know I disputed a debit card transaction and got my money back the other month
In Canada, every bank has Interac e-Transfer, essentially we can easily email or text either other money. It's really wicked, and I'm always amazed other places like America don't have it built into their bank accounts and have to use 3rd-party apps to handle sending money to each other. But anyway, the point is that it tells you every single time you send a transfer that way to be careful, because you can't undo a t…
I know Joel well and think a lot here is both accurate and well written. I led the Yahoo bug bounty program from 2023-2024 and was involved in it from about 2021. A major event that this glosses over is Covid which also happened right around this time as well. Covid killed travel (and budget) which in turn made it impossible to do the live events. A lot of companies ended up shifting to virtual live events which just…
> travel and t&e budgets just never returned. It is also worth remembering that the cost of travel itself, and the cost of venues itself has also increased substantially. As well as associated costs such as catering and insurance. So in-person events have issues from both sides, those attending and those hosting. You also do not mention corporate policies. Under pressure from investors, their employees and sometimes…