Developer Auction Racks Up $78 Million More Bids, Expands To LA
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Re: Developer Auction Racks Up $78 Million More Bids, Expands To LA
#2I wonder what expands to LA really means. I got 2 offers from startups that are based in LA already.
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#3Nice job)
Re: Developer Auction Racks Up $78 Million More Bids, Expands To LA
#4I still don't understand why they're only limited to allowing developers from a few select employers and Stanford/MIT grads.
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#5I still don't understand why they're only limited to allowing developers from a few select employers and Stanford/MIT grads.
Hit refresh on our homepage :)
That acceptance criteria was used for the first auction, but we're opening it up now.
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#6I wonder what expands to LA really means. I got 2 offers from startups that are based in LA already.
We had a lot of LA Employers onboard, but no LA Developers.
It's a lot easier to recruit local talent vs. convincing people to pack up and move -- especially if they own a house, have family/partners/friends or other strong ties to their current location.
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#7> Not that DevelopersAuction has been sticking too closely to its original parameters anyway. Ostensibly the company solicits developers who are graduates of Stanford or MIT and/or have worked for companies like Google, Facebook or Apple. But at least one Chicago based developer was accepted even though he didn’t match those criteria.
I was accepted to Developer Auction (not looking for work, but I always like to know what my options are) despite having no college experience (let alone a degree), indicating I lived in the middle of nowhere in CT and was only interested in remote work, had never worked for one of the 'big startups', and stating I was only looking for security roles. No idea how I was accepted.
I received some interest -- e.g. "Are you sure you don't want to move to SF?" -- but no offers. I'm assuming it was primarily due to the remote requirement given that.
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#8I put myself up on there even though I'm based in Atlanta. (I'm a friend of Allan Grant, btw) Any thoughts about telecommuting positions or general remote workers? Are you avoiding those kinds of positions currently?
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#9The article is a bit misleading. Offers generally mean the interviews are done, and the company has found a match. But on the homepage it says all offers are non-binding and before any interviews. It seems they can be used as just a way for the recruiter/company to get someone's attention.
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#10I put myself up on there even though I'm based in Atlanta. (I'm a friend of Allan Grant, btw) Any thoughts about telecommuting positions or general remote workers? Are you avoiding those kinds of positions currently?
Recruiting for telecommuting positions in general is a lot easier... it's getting talented people to show up in your office in the SF Bay Area or NYC that's usually the bigger challenge and where the greatest supply-demand imbalance lies, and that's the problem we're trying to tackle.