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dsolomon··on Fred Wilson on Indeed
Who?
dsolomon··on Pricing is hard. We need your help.
Slow down or you'll burn up on reentry. Start with Amway.
dsolomon··on Pricing is hard. We need your help.
I won't hesitate to call someone out on BS salary/compensation "data".
dsolomon··on Which colleges help grads snare top salaries?
Citing Payscale? That's somewhere between desperate and useless.
dsolomon··on Job search site Indeed.com acquired by Recruit Co. Ltd
Fred who and AVwhat?

The posters sent that site's credibility down the drain years ago. Good riddance.

dsolomon··on Job search site Indeed.com acquired by Recruit Co. Ltd
I was referring to credibility not traffic.
dsolomon··on Job search site Indeed.com acquired by Recruit Co. Ltd
Indeed.com was pretty much trash anyway. Maybe they can sell it as a write-off
dsolomon··on CarDroid: Android built into cars. Please vote so we can get funding
Pass - the partnership with Nissan is the turn off.
dsolomon··on Adobe Edge Web Fonts
It's fonts and a pageful of bitter people who cannot figure them out.
dsolomon··on Business Tech becomes sexy again
It's about time the tech sector got respect again.
dsolomon··on Quit My Job For Consulting: Two Months Later
This place really needs a downvote feature to quickly call BS on the ficticious salary information that occasionally pops up.
dsolomon··on Quit My Job For Consulting: Two Months Later
It's for adults- perhaps a paper route is more your speed.
dsolomon··on Ask HN: How do you evaluate an equity opportunity?
Same as they would for any other company.
dsolomon··on How Much Should Startup Employees Earn? Wealthfront Tells Us With A Clever Tool
So what's the link to the needle in the haystack?
dsolomon··on How Much Should Startup Employees Earn? Wealthfront Tells Us With A Clever Tool
Citation needed.
dsolomon··on How Much Should Startup Employees Earn? Wealthfront Tells Us With A Clever Tool
I have a low tolerance for BS.
dsolomon··on Please stop with the video tutorials
Go away troll.
dsolomon··on The GitHub hiring experience
This is what happens when you keep HR out of the hiring process.
dsolomon··on Why Your Customers Would Be Happier If You Charged More
Got 2 paragraphs in - realized author lives in fantasyland.
dsolomon··on Why You Should Apply to TechStars Cloud
Spam.
dsolomon··on The secret to hiring a designer
Provide clear requirements - No Provide realistic schedule - No. Provide decent pay - No.

"Make sure you like the designer’s style so much that you would trust them to create a design for you without any input."

Right, just make sure they be stylin' yo!

dsolomon··on How Much Should Startup Employees Earn? Wealthfront Tells Us With A Clever Tool
What a load of crap.

If companies paid that much then unemployment would be next to nil.

dsolomon··on Walking out of an interview
Walking out isn't rude. It's a reality check for the HR and management that something isn't kosher.

I've walked out of interviews after finding the usual bait-n-switch techniques regarding position description, expectations, travel requirements, compensation, work conditions, .. just to name a few.

Do I expect HR/management to get a clue - not really, it's not my job to further their problem solving ability.

dsolomon··on Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers
Yes. We have some on sight, for a government agency, as part of a government contract, for which we are the prime.

Additionally, we've taken people from help desk, put them on the server team, then placed them doing host based security and paid them upper 40's (before taxes).

Clearance level is TS.

dsolomon··on Released footage of the police raid on the Kim Dotcom mansion
The raid was written by Michael Bay.
dsolomon··on Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers
Sadly I am serious. It helps to explain our 150%+ turnover rate at 34 months into a 60 month contract, but high turnover is good for profits.
dsolomon··on Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers
5% raise - who's giving that much?

Corporate norms are 1.5% to 2.5% for the talented.

dsolomon··on Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers
Because it is easy and you're just being dense.
dsolomon··on Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers
10+ years of working in the DC area supporting the Columbia customer, McLean customer and the Quantico customer for a variety of companies and still no one paying close to the rates you're claiming. It obvious you can't distinguish between the billing rate and a salary rate.
dsolomon··on Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers
Benefits: Trying being assigned a practitioner closest to the work location so you'll miss as little work as possible; or benefits that are project dependent (some projects support a 401k, some don't)

High salary: 30K starting with sr devs going for around 60K to 70K

Flexible hours: 730 to 430 M-F, with Wednesday onsite support needed from 6pm to 10pm (you are allowed up show up no later than 9AM on Thursday)

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