DeveloperAuction Expanding to Designers, Offering Free Intern Placement

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20 pointsliberatus5 comments

Has anyone here ever used Developer Auctions? I'm curious if the engineers actually get higher salaries or if it's just on par with market value.

To be perfectly honest, 87% of candidates who go through the process and take a job, go with a company OTHER than the one that made the highest offer.

In fact, many more interview requests get rejected for "not interested in the company/industry" rather than insufficient compensation.

It's almost always more about the opportunity & the company, rather than the pay.

For sure, I don't disagree with that. As a developer though, one reason I would try developer auctions is for a chance at some ludicrously high salary. I'm just wondering if that is the reality or not. Seems like it isn't.

Most of the offers I got were below market value, I only received one offer that was /kind/ of close to what people are paying good engineers in NYC but they did not want to continue since apparently they were looking for somebody to work 80 hour weeks.

No thanks.

The concept is really interesting, is there an equivalent of DeveloperAuction in Europe?

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