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stepny··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2017)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com

Step.com is a salary discovery platform that lets software engineers and product managers find out what companies and experts would pay them. Feedback and compensation estimates are predicted based on anonymized profile data and company criteria. We're looking for an experienced software engineer to help us with the architecture of our systems, coding the frontend and backend, working on our algorithms, and more. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

Read about our analysis on tech salaries across engineering levels at some the major tech companies: https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...

To get in touch, email jennifer@step.com. Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, PHP, C++, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Developer

stepny··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com

Step.com is a salary discovery platform that lets software engineers and product managers find out what companies and experts would pay them. Feedback and compensation estimates are predicted based on anonymized profile data and company criteria.

We're looking for an experienced software engineer to help us with the architecture of our systems, coding the frontend and backend, working on our algorithms, and more. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

Read about our analysis on tech salaries across engineering levels at some the major tech companies: https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...

To get in touch, email jennifer@step.com.

Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Developer

stepny··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com

Step.com is a salary discovery platform that lets software engineers and product managers find out what companies and experts would pay them. Feedback and compensation estimates are predicted based on anonymized profile data and company criteria.

We're looking for an experienced software engineer to help us with the architecture of our systems, coding the frontend and backend, working on our algorithms, and more. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

Read about our analysis on tech salaries across engineering levels at some the major tech companies: https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...

To get in touch, email jennifer@step.com. Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Developer

stepny··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com

Step.com is a salary discovery platform that lets software engineers and product managers find out what companies and experts think of them. Feedback and compensation estimates are predicted based on anonymized profile data and company criteria.

We're looking for an experienced software engineer to help us with the architecture of our systems, coding the frontend and backend, working on our algorithms, and more. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

Read about our analysis on tech salaries across engineering levels at some the major tech companies: https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...

To get in touch, email jennifer@step.com. Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Developer

stepny··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com

Step.com is an anonymous platform that lets software engineers and product managers find out what companies and experts think of them and would pay them. Step sends users feedback and compensation predictions, based on anonymized profile data and criteria provided to us by companies.

We're looking for an experienced software engineer to help us with the architecture of our systems, coding the frontend and backend, working on our algorithms, and more. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

Read about our analysis on tech salaries across engineering levels at some the major tech companies: https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...

To get in touch, email jennifer@step.com.

Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Engineer

stepny··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com

Step.com is a salary discovery platform that lets software engineers and product managers find out what companies and experts think of them. Feedback and compensation estimates are predicted based on anonymized profile data and company criteria.

We're looking for an experienced software engineer to help us with the architecture of our systems, coding the frontend and backend, working on our algorithms, and more. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

Read about our analysis on tech salaries across engineering levels at some the major tech companies: https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...

To get in touch, email jennifer@step.com. Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Engineer http://www.step.com

stepny··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com

Step.com is a salary discovery platform that lets software engineers and product managers receive personalized compensation estimates from companies and experts based on their anonymized profile data.

We're currently in beta and looking to bring on a software engineer to help us with the architecture of our systems, coding the backend, building out the dashboard, working on our algorithms, and more. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

For an example of what we're trying to accomplish, read our analysis on tech salaries across engineering levels at some the major tech companies: https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...

To get in touch, email jennifer@step.com. Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Engineer http://www.step.com

stepny··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com

Step.com is a new salary discovery platform lets engineers and product managers find out what companies would pay them. The platform is anonymous, and Step members receive personalized compensation estimates based on their anonymized profile data and companies' hiring criteria.

We're currently in beta and looking to bring on a software engineer to help us with the architecture of our systems, coding the backend, building out the dashboard, working on our algorithms, and more. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We currently use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

For an example of what we're trying to accomplish, read our analysis on tech salaries across engineering levels at some the major tech companies: https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...

To get in touch, email jennifer@step.com. Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Engineer http://www.step.com

stepny··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com

Step.com is a new salary discovery platform where engineers and product managers can receive personalized compensation estimates anonymously crowdsourced from NYC startups and hiring experts. We're currently in beta for NYC engineers and PMs.

We're looking to bring on a software engineer to help us build out our platform. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We currently use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

For an example of what we're trying to accomplish, read our analysis on tech salaries across engineering levels at some the major tech companies: https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...

To get in touch, email jennifer@step.com. Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Engineer

http://www.step.com

stepny··on Open Source Project– 1,700 Salaries Now with LinkedIn, Twitter, PMs- Share Yours
Unfortunately, there aren't yet enough compensation data points for other companies for us to do an analysis. But, we did include a link to the raw data where people have contributed their compensation for some of these smaller companies: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BYn35bPjeUTZY_W_dkAQ...
stepny··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com

Step.com is building a platform where engineers and product managers can find their market value, by anonymously crowdsourcing personalized salary estimates and other feedback from NYC startups and hiring experts. We're currently in beta for NYC engineers and PMs.

We're looking to bring on a full-stack engineer to help us build out our platform. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We currently use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

For an example what we're trying to accomplish, read our write-up on 689 tech salaries posted on Hacker News here: https://blog.step.com/2016/04/08/an-open-source-project-for-...

To get in touch, email jennifer@step.com. Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Engineer http://www.step.com

stepny··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com Step.com is building a platform where engineers and product managers can find their market value while staying anonymous. We crowdsource for you personalized salary estimates from NYC startups and hiring experts, based your anonymized profile. You'll never have to interview or talk to a recruiter to find out what companies think of you and how they value you. We're currently in beta for NYC engineers and PMs.

We're looking to bring on a full-stack engineer to help us build out our platform. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We currently use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

For an example what we're trying to accomplish, read our write-up on 689 tech salaries posted on Hacker News here: https://blog.step.com/2016/04/08/an-open-source-project-for-...

To get in touch, email jennifer@step.com. Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Engineer http://www.step.com

stepny··on Open Source Project – View 689 Salaries Posted on Hacker News, Share Yours
Good question. We checked the raw data again, and the signing bonuses are all consistently high for Facebook Level 1. We also know a couple of people at Facebook who have received signing bonuses in line with the $75K. But we don't yet know why it's so high compared with the other companies.
stepny··on Open Source Project – View 689 Salaries Posted on Hacker News, Share Yours
We straight lined Amazon's stock signing bonuses for comparison with the other companies.
stepny··on Open Source Project – View 689 Salaries Posted on Hacker News, Share Yours
Thank you!
stepny··on Open Source Project – View 689 Salaries Posted on Hacker News, Share Yours
Thanks for the feedback :). L1 is right out of college, but the others are based on different criteria. Quora has a pretty good post that describes the levels at Amazon, which you can translate into our levels that we created to compare across the companies. https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-different-levels-of-softw...
stepny··on Open Source Project – View 689 Salaries Posted on Hacker News, Share Yours
The second chart should show the compensation breakdown across salary, cash bonus and equity.

In NYC and SF, there's high demand for and short supply of developers, which drives up compensation. Companies in these cities will recruit from across the country to get talent. Cities like Dallas though also have a much lower cost of living, so that should be taken into account. There was a Hacker News thread about this at one point.

We don't yet have enough data on each market, but we plan on breaking out the analysis by city once we get that data.

stepny··on Open Source Project – View 689 Salaries Posted on Hacker News, Share Yours
This is really cool!
stepny··on Open Source Project – View 689 Salaries Posted on Hacker News, Share Yours
Definitely. We have a few data points on tech roles at non-profits, but not enough to draw any meaningful conclusions yet. Hopefully, we can get some more data around this to be able to post the same type of analysis. We'll also be doing it for smaller companies too, to see how compensation compares across company size.
stepny··on Open Source Project – View 689 Salaries Posted on Hacker News, Share Yours
These are just the companies that had the most data points, probably because the original posts that the data came from were about Amazon and Google salaries :). We plan to update our analysis with more companies and roles as we get enough data.
stepny··on Open Source Project – View 689 Salaries Posted on Hacker News, Share Yours
We just notice that of the engineers on our platform, the people who make more money generally don't seek out this kind of data. And the people who are more uncertain about what they should be making tend to be more curious and willing to share.
stepny··on Open Source Project – View 689 Salaries Posted on Hacker News, Share Yours
No, we don't have hard data on this. We just notice that of the engineers on our platform, we find that the people who make more money generally don't seek out this kind of data. And the people who are more uncertain about what they should be making tend to be more curious and willing to share.
stepny··on Open Source Project – View 689 Salaries Posted on Hacker News, Share Yours
We're not quite there yet with the data we have :). Anecdotally though, it seems like companies in Europe pay less and take out more taxes.
stepny··on Open Source Project – View 689 Salaries Posted on Hacker News, Share Yours
There are a bunch of spreadsheets. We consolidated and standardized the data on a few of them, but we still have more to do. We clean the data, and then we try to see what type of synthesized info we can provide back.
stepny··on Open Source Project – View 689 Salaries Posted on Hacker News, Share Yours
Unfortunately, we don't have that information right now. We could try to find out. It just wasn't part of the compensation data that the people on Hacker News had posted.
stepny··on Open Source Project – View 689 Salaries Posted on Hacker News, Share Yours
Aiming for once a week, but depends on how much more data we're able to get.
stepny··on Open Source Project – View 689 Salaries Posted on Hacker News, Share Yours
We actually suspect that people who are paid less or are underpaid are more likely to report their salaries. For example, it seems like Glassdoor data skews low.
stepny··on Open Source Project – View 689 Salaries Posted on Hacker News, Share Yours
It's possible that some of the data came from that spreadsheet. The sources of the data are cited at the bottom of the post. You're right that it is all self-reported and unverified. We tried to clean and standardize the data as best we could. The biggest source of error for us in the process might have been the level, particularly because some of the reported bonuses and stock compensation seemed out of line with the stated level. But we took the Level as it was in almost all cases. It may very well be that companies overpay in certain circumstances.
stepny··on Open Source Project – View 689 Salaries Posted on Hacker News, Share Yours
Yes, it's all US I believe. If you click the link to look at the raw data, you can see the google doc which has a column for City/State
stepny··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com

Step.com is building a platform where engineers and product managers can anonymously crowdsource their marketplace value. We get NYC startups and hiring experts to score your profile with personalized salary and seniority level estimates, while keeping you anonymous. Our vision is that you'll be able to know what your value is to every company, without having to interview or talk with a recruiter. We're currently in beta for NYC engineers and PMs.

We're looking to bring on a full-stack engineer to help us build out our platform. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We currently use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

To get in touch, email jennifer@step.com.

Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Engineer

http://www.step.com

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