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Re: YC startups that are hiring

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Post by DenisM »

eterm wrote: post #48
DenisM wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're using a cloud hosting, such as AWS EC2, the added expense of Windows is around 30%. Nothing terribly expensive about that. And you also get credits from Bizspak, that could be used to apply to offset AWS licensing.

But god help you if you need SQL server beyond what express provides. (Web is OK but expensive, "standard" or enterprise? Now that hurts)

> god help you if you need SQL server beyond what express provides

Too much drama. Here's pricing for m3.large:

  Red Hat:      $0.193
  Windows:      $0.259
  Win + SqlWeb: $0.367
Besides, you get several(?) free SQL licenses with BizSpark, if you're so inclined.

Re: YC startups that are hiring

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Post by brobdingnagian »

quadrature wrote: post #50
brobdingnagian wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have also done it. None of the things you mentioned predict success. In fact, very little aside from basic hygiene is likely to predict success, which is what renders these purportedly meritocratic hiring processes so out of touch with reality.

How would you design an interview process ?

The evidence simply does not support present hiring methodologies as predictive of successful business outcomes. Therefore, you should hire and invest in people who need jobs. The reason the increasingly widely accepted status quo of interview processes continues is essentially due to confirmation bias: companies want you to feel like you are part of a special, select team. In reality, we are not that much different from each other. The evidence suggests hiring people who need jobs and dispensing with the bs.

Re: YC startups that are hiring

#54

Post by kogir »

DenisM wrote: post #51
eterm wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But god help you if you need SQL server beyond what express provides. (Web is OK but expensive, "standard" or enterprise? Now that hurts)

> god help you if you need SQL server beyond what express provides Too much drama. Here's pricing for m3.large: Red Hat: $0.193 Windows: $0.259 Win + SqlWeb: $0.367 Besides, you get several(?) free SQL licenses with BizSpark, if you're so inclined.

SQL Server Web Edition is not the same as Standard or Enterprise. The reason you use SQL Server instead of PostgreSQL is for Database Encryption, Analysis Services, AlwaysOn Availability Groups, etc. Web Edition won't even do mirroring.

The cost is worth it if it saves you multiple employees worth of development work or administration overhead, and in my experience it does. The pricing is also (surprise!) negotiable. At Loopt, our annual software licensing cost was well under the cost of one developer, and this was before BizSpark.

Re: YC startups that are hiring

#55

Post by rdl »

stevesearer wrote: post #3

I'd love for this sort of thing to have a filter with the type of office employees would be working on. That way everyone on Hacker News can apply for the jobs with the offices best aligned with software development sending a positive signal to those companies and hopefully encouraging better office design overall for those types of jobs.

Yeah; I basically will not work anywhere without a private office ever again. That basically means a professional job, or a startup I run.

Re: YC startups that are hiring

#56

Post by MCRed »

rgbrgb wrote: post #9
stevesearer wrote: post #3

I'd love for this sort of thing to have a filter with the type of office employees would be working on. That way everyone on Hacker News can apply for the jobs with the offices best aligned with software development sending a positive signal to those companies and hopefully encouraging better office design overall for those types of jobs.

Interesting idea. I kind of doubt office layout is a dominating factor in how most people choose their next job though. This should be especially true if you're trying to choose a rocket ship startup right before it blasts off. Office dynamics, location, and layout will all change (and will be shaped by the employees) as the company scales.

It is a litmus test issue. It tells you if the startup really is a rocket ship because it's run by people who know what they are doing, or if it's a roll of the dice.

They might all be crowded into a small room, but if the founder says "we believe in collaboration and will never put developers in silos" instead of "we'll be getting individual offices ASAP, but you can work from home if you need to" then you have some visibility into the companies chances.

Re: YC startups that are hiring

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Post by hobs »

kogir wrote: post #54
DenisM wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> god help you if you need SQL server beyond what express provides Too much drama. Here's pricing for m3.large: Red Hat: $0.193 Windows: $0.259 Win + SqlWeb: $0.367 Besides, you get several(?) free SQL licenses with BizSpark, if you're so inclined.

SQL Server Web Edition is not the same as Standard or Enterprise. The reason you use SQL Server instead of PostgreSQL is for Database Encryption, Analysis Services, AlwaysOn Availability Groups, etc. Web Edition won't even do mirroring. The cost is worth it if it saves you multiple employees worth of development work or administration overhead, and in my experience it does. The pricing is also (surprise!) negotiable.…

Basically, yep.

But you can see why people get some sticker shock: $14,256 on their website for SQL Server 2014 enterprise (per core!) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/sql-ser...

However as you say, you could easily get a 50% discount on that without having a big SQL Server farm.

No bizspark required.

Re: YC startups that are hiring

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Post by w1ntermute »

brobdingnagian wrote: post #52
quadrature wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How would you design an interview process ?

The evidence simply does not support present hiring methodologies as predictive of successful business outcomes. Therefore, you should hire and invest in people who need jobs. The reason the increasingly widely accepted status quo of interview processes continues is essentially due to confirmation bias: companies want you to feel like you are part of a special, select team. In reality, we are not that much different…

One of the cruelest ironies of the post-recession hiring environment has been how companies are much more interested in hiring those who are already employed.

Re: YC startups that are hiring

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Post by radcam »

brobdingnagian wrote: post #26

Remember - all TripleByte is doing is reinforcing the bad hiring practices that companies already have.

i reserved my slot and scheduled a phone call, then they sent me an email that i lost the slot till further notice because they got busy. that's worse than the bad hiring practices that companies already have.
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