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Hacker News' “Who is Hiring?” thread, part 2, remote and locations

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Re: Hacker News' “Who is Hiring?” thread, part 2, remote and locations

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Post by nraynaud »

skrebbel wrote: post #64
legohead wrote: post #47

I happened to be in Russia when the Who's Hiring thread showed up. I have family there, so I was entertaining the thought of possibly moving there, or maybe staying for a year or two. However, I noticed most of the remote locations were "US-only", and even the ones in other countries were usually local to that country -- "germany only", etc. I was wondering how many of the "US-only" ones would accept me, since I am a…

I think a combination of simpler tax/administration and timezones. Working with a distributed team across the world's time zones (f.ex. Bay Area and much of Europe are 9 hours apart) is an entirely different game from working with a distributed team in roughly the same time zone. The latter allows you to organise as a digital version of a colocated office, eg you can you standups, easily plan meetings without negotia…

no, because that's forgetting the entire Latin America that has timezones similar to the US.

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Post by lsllc »

wtvanhest wrote: post #14
ef4 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, keeping them apart makes no sense. Definitely a single market. If they belong apart, then so do Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Cambridge and Boston should be together, but Silicon Valley and SF shouldn't. I could walk to Cambridge from my house in the city of Boston. There is no way I could walk to Palo Alto from SF.

It should be "Eastern MA" given the large number of technology companies outside of the city but inside Rt 128 & I-495.

Re: Hacker News' “Who is Hiring?” thread, part 2, remote and locations

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Post by nraynaud »

_ao789 wrote: post #35
bchjam wrote: post #6

London is in Europe but Berlin in Germany? seems pretty ironic given recent news

London isn't technically in Europe anymore..

Technically the UK han't done anything with their vote. Not a single official step.

Re: Hacker News' “Who is Hiring?” thread, part 2, remote and locations

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Post by slantedview »

happyslobro wrote: post #60
slantedview wrote: post #50

We embrace technology for every stupid purpose imaginable, yet remote work facilitated by technology is generally viewed with disdain. It makes no sense, which is why remote work will continue to rise into the future. The dramatic centralization of our industry into a few locations also doesn't help with the crush of housing costs.

Putting a laptop on a cart, keeping it at just the right position relative to the whiteboard wall, and jotting down notes and diagrams for the guys on the other end, is frustrating. Repeating ~10% of the statements in a meeting because of audio issues is frustrating. There are a lot more technologies that need to be brought to market, or improved, in order to eliminate the drawbacks of remote work. Right now, I find…

All of your points are 100% true. There are workarounds, but generally I think we need to embrace these challenges as perfect use cases for our own work as technologists.

If you were to project our current technical culture many years into the future, flying cars, free energy, clean water, etc., would we still have to herd ourselves into a central location every day so we can sit in a chair that is positioned next to a bunch of other people in order to accomplish the most basic communicative/collaborative tasks? With all that we've accomplished and all that we will accomplish, it seems to me that's not the way of the future, that's the way of the past.

TL;DR; It's not that remote work is easy, it's just that we smell of hypocrisy when we try to apply technology to every possible problem while rejecting it for our own.

Re: Hacker News' “Who is Hiring?” thread, part 2, remote and locations

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Post by xando »

carlob wrote: post #87

Great post! A couple of nitpicks on the data presentation for the sake of making it even better: 1. You don't have enough data to warrant 5 significant digits in the percentages, and even if you did, is it really relevant? 2. The points in your plot are interpolated using some sort of spline, why? If the answer is: because it looks better than jagged edges, then you should probably remove the spline, because you're e…

Hey, thanks for the comments. And I agree. I will keep that in mind writing the next part.

(I'm an author)

Re: Hacker News' “Who is Hiring?” thread, part 2, remote and locations

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Post by chris_va »

chris11 wrote: post #88
Bahamut wrote: post #73

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Can verify - I turned down an opportunity for lead frontend work a year ago for $350k-400k (a lot of compensation in stock/bonuses, so it was variable), and that wasn't even at a big tech company. (For the curious, I opted for tremendous work-life balance instead)

Where are you currently in your career? I'm kind of curious, because I never hear of compensation packages normally going up that high. So I'm wondering what skills companies are looking for at that price.

400k isn't unusual about 6 years in.

Re: Hacker News' “Who is Hiring?” thread, part 2, remote and locations

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Post by jajern »

macjohnmcc wrote: post #83
TrickzOnU wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, i'd take a $70k salary while living in North Carolina. But the "shortage" being discussed here is for the Bay Area. I'm here, let me break down my costs: - $17k taxes - $3k health care premiums - $7k college loans - $36k rent - almost nothing left for savings, retirement, down payment, engagement ring, any means to get out of my situation

You couldn't afford to get married if you can't afford an engagement ring.

You can get married for about $60 (or the cost of a marriage license in your area). Of course, if you want a Wedding then that's a little different.

Re: Hacker News' “Who is Hiring?” thread, part 2, remote and locations

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Post by jkempe11 »

iwillium wrote: post #7

If you combine SF with Silicon Valley you really ought to combine Cambridge, MA with Boston, MA

Same with the LA area here. "Santa Monica" is mentioned once, but if you aggregated all the locations that fall into the Greater LA area, I bet it would rank higher.

Re: Hacker News' “Who is Hiring?” thread, part 2, remote and locations

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Post by source99 »

rco8786 wrote: post #89
TrickzOnU wrote: post #69

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I'm familiar with these opportunities. They are not entry-level positions, they are highly technical positions which require extensive architectural experience...the sort that individuals often have mid-career (often with children, braces, school tuition, medical co-pays, etc.) So yes, $300k for a mid-career position is clearly not enough in the Bay Area. Could you raise a family in a 1BR, yes you can! But there is a…

You can do a lot better then a 1Br on a 300k salary in the Bay Area. Even in the most expensive parts.

Just for fun:

$300K pre tax. Tax rate of 40% $180K after taxes High Quality Child Care for 2 Children = $6K per month or $72K / year

108K after childcare

3Br house in SF - http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/hhh?search_distance=4&pos...

Call it $6K / month or $72K per year

$36K left after housing + Childcare + taxes.

$3K / month for transportation, food, clothing, vacations. Good luck...

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