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Developer Auction raises $2.7M for exactly what you’d think

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Re: Developer Auction raises $2.7M for exactly what you’d think

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Post by ritchiea »

vecinu wrote: post #40
ritchiea wrote: post #18

I was a developer in the most recent auction and it was a great experience. As a developer it appeared the only required field for employers was salary. Often equity, vacation days and perks were listed but sometimes they were listed as negotiable. All but one of the offers I received were for significant raises above my previous salary. And the offers included some from high profile companies. Once you receive an of…

Sounds like you had a great experience. Thank you for sharing your story. You mentioned you declined 3 of the 6 offers but did you end up accepting one?

Yup maybe I buried the lede a bit. I put that detail in the last sentence.

I ended up accepting an offer that I think is a better culture fit than my old position and a significant raise.

Re: Developer Auction raises $2.7M for exactly what you’d think

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Post by waterlesscloud »

ritchiea wrote: post #34
ericmsimons wrote: post #28

What's crazy is that this reminds me of how slaves used to be sold. Round up a few folks who can do hard work, put them on a podium and then sell them to the highest bidder. Not a perfect analogy by any stretch, although it is interesting.

That's ridiculous. It's a resemblance in name only. The format is actually a tremendous shift of power towards the employee and the developer gets a portion of the total recruitment fee. And obviously no one is literally auctioned off, employees and employers both have a say in the matter. Also what slaves got auctioned off to make six figures in loft offices of hip cities?

The name remains awful, but they seem committed to stick with it. For better or worse.

Re: Developer Auction raises $2.7M for exactly what you’d think

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Post by ritchiea »

epoxyhockey wrote: post #36

If I call any recruiting agency in the Bay Area, I will be offered interviews with at least 3 companies, along with promises that I would be offered a salary of 20% above market. The interviews would be conducted in the recruiter's offices and the salary figures will quickly decline once actually speaking to a company representative. I feel like I'm still not seeing the additional value that Developer Auction brings…

I found there to be two advantages:

1. I get contacted by tons of recruiters over linkedin, but I have no idea which of them actually have relationships with great companies. Lots of them make big promises and introduce you to terrible uninspiring companies. Through Developer Auction I got interviews at some really interesting companies.

2. You the developer get a cut of the recruiter fee if you are hired through developer auction.

Re: Developer Auction raises $2.7M for exactly what you’d think

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Post by ritchiea »

cliftonmckinney wrote: post #39

Co-founder of Work for Pie (the other company mentioned in the article) here. I will say I'm glad that these guys expanded from their original, pretty elitist degree and/or experience requirements. There are companies that do it right--like Github and Etsy--and there are companies that do it wrong. The big problem is that doing it right probably takes more time. Supporting the local developer ecosystem, presenting at…

Work for Pie sounds like a great company too, I had never heard of you before this thread. Best of luck to you.

Re: Developer Auction raises $2.7M for exactly what you’d think

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Post by ritchiea »

epoxyhockey wrote: post #36

If I call any recruiting agency in the Bay Area, I will be offered interviews with at least 3 companies, along with promises that I would be offered a salary of 20% above market. The interviews would be conducted in the recruiter's offices and the salary figures will quickly decline once actually speaking to a company representative. I feel like I'm still not seeing the additional value that Developer Auction brings…

Let me add one more thing. I once had the experience where I was working with a recruiter who made promises about introductions and ended up introducing me to just one company that was a bad technology fit over 2-3 weeks. While at the same time I was able to land myself multiple interviews just by talking with people. Some recruiters aren't very good at their jobs and you don't find that out until you waste time working with them.

Re: Developer Auction raises $2.7M for exactly what you’d think

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Post by [deleted] »

Zikes wrote: post #12
hkmurakami wrote: post #6

B) AirBnB for oil tankers Is it just me or does this actually sound quite interesting?

One of these days someone is going to make a parody "X for Y" site that randomly generates similar such things. * AirBnB for oil tankers * Dropbox for cars * Uber for soft drinks * Exec for music * Github for food * Twitter for fashion

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Re: Developer Auction raises $2.7M for exactly what you’d think

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Post by saranagati »

n00b101 wrote: post #30

The FAQ says "Our primary focus is the SF Bay Area, LA and NYC. We accept great engineers from Seattle, Boston, Boulder/Denver, Chicago and Washington DC as well." Does this mean that DeveloperAuction will only accept developers residing in these specific cities? What about non-US residents (e.g. Canada)?

I just signed up and am pretty dismayed by the "thanks" email I got. I honestly wish I didn't take the time to sign up for this

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Thanks so much for your application! We will thoroughly review it and if your application is approved, you'll be sent a second confirmation email 72 hours before an auction launches with an opt-in link to confirm your participation.

We've been very excited to receive thousands of applications to participate in each of our auctions, but unfortunately we can only let in a select pool of candidates. We will be judging applications based on:

1.) Location. We are primarily focused on the SF Bay Area, NYC, Boston, and LA though select Engineers from Austin, Denver, Seattle, and developers that are willing to relocate are also let onto the platform.

2.) Likelyhood to attract offers from employers. For example, Python and Rails Developers are much more in-demand among start-ups than .NET Programmers

3.) Education History & Open-source contributions. We favour Engineers from the likes of MIT, UC Berkeley and Stanford as well as Engineers who have notable GitHub accounts.

4.) Notable accomplishments & achievements. Make sure your profile is complete!

Re: Developer Auction raises $2.7M for exactly what you’d think

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Post by egillie »

epoxyhockey wrote: post #36

If I call any recruiting agency in the Bay Area, I will be offered interviews with at least 3 companies, along with promises that I would be offered a salary of 20% above market. The interviews would be conducted in the recruiter's offices and the salary figures will quickly decline once actually speaking to a company representative. I feel like I'm still not seeing the additional value that Developer Auction brings…

Developer Auction requires the companies to actually offer what they say they will. If someone offers you 120k, that number won't go down after you interview on-campus.

Re: Developer Auction raises $2.7M for exactly what you’d think

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Post by adam-a »

allangrant wrote: post #21
jrabone wrote: post #19

From the T&C: "You are expressly prohibited from accessing DEVAUCT through a virtual private network or by proxy;" WTF? a) unenforcable. b) breaks IronKey Secure Sessions. c) breaks compressing mobile browsers eg. Opera Mobile etc. d) don't tell me what I can and can't do with my network.

sounds like some boilerplate we weren't aware of. thanks for bringing this up! will check it out and probably remove it. seems totally irrelevant, and i agree with your comments.

I was aware that customers reading the ToS is a little white lie, but I thought at least the company would take the time!
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