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Oxide is hiring in the following areas: electrical engineering, security, embedded, control plane + API, internal systems automation, dev tools, and product des

by dcre 5y ago

Oxide is hiring in the following areas: electrical engineering, security, embedded, control plane + API, internal systems automation, dev tools, and product design. (I work there.) https://oxide.computer/careers https://oxide.computer/careers

dls2016 5y ago
Curious... if I'm still in the "triage" bucket after 6 weeks should I assume the ship has sailed? I was really hoping to hear back one way or the other!
- quadruplebond 5y ago
  They got back to me after about 5.5 weeks (it was a no, but nicely worded). I think they are just really busy.
- dcre 5y ago
  No, you will hear back. We're trying really hard to keep to the 6 weeks thing but sometimes we don't succeed.
  - deleted 5y ago
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  - 0des 5y ago
    Please get back to them today, this is a prompt or cue to rescue this one from falling through the cracks. You never know...
  - robocat 5y ago
    I would think that startups would want to bias for people that can make good decisions quickly, within a short decision time. Perhaps hardware startups want more conservative employees? Also in my experience, a fabulous candidate is sometimes only available for a very short time window (they either have become available due to unforeseen circumstances, or they are snapped up by a faster mover). Is six weeks fast in your opinion?
    - steveklabnik 5y ago
      In general: no, we'd love for things to be faster than six weeks. We just get a tremendous amount of applicants, and we have a lot of work to do. So the queue gets backed up. Hiring is hard.
    - dls2016 5y ago
      Not insinuating that I'm a "fabulous" candidate (also totally possible that I am!), but I've been experiencing the opposite. The quickest offers I've received have had the most red flags. The places I'd like to work seem to move slower and require more preparation. For instance Oxide has applicants put together a lot of written work and another company has a seemingly easy take-home project but which requires unfamiliar (to me) setup that I haven't had time to tackle. Then there are the faang-style interviews with loops scheduled perhaps weeks in the future. I may send another round of applications soon, but I'm going to be more selective so I can manage the process better.
  - dls2016 5y ago
    Thank you, that does help. I thankfully have some flexibility in my search… and I promise the other replies aren’t alt accounts!
rcarmo 5y ago
All your positions seem to be US-based, though. Or am I missing something?
- benjaminleonard 5y ago
  All the positions on the site currently are remote friendly. I work for Oxide remotely from the UK – you just need a reasonable overlap with PT, I overlap four hours most days.
  - glandium 5y ago
    I'm curious how that works with the one-salary policy.
    - benjaminleonard 5y ago
      Everyone is paid the same, regardless of location.
      - glandium 5y ago
        I won't claim to know how salaries work in the US, but from what I know in some other countries, there is an employer overhead to salary, so for a salary of x, the employer is actually lining up x times k, with k larger than 1. However, if you're not in the US, you're either an independent contractor or an employee in a GEO or something of the sort. In the first case, you would bill something and get a salary out of it. If you bill x, a) your income is in dollars rather than local currency, which from experience is not great, b) you cost less to the company than US employees who cost x times k, c) you have to pay your own overhead before making it a salary. So if you bill x, your salary is less than x, and you still have to pay taxes on that salary. If GEO or other similar arrangement, you're usually paid in local currency, presumably an amount corresponding to x at a given date, and that has extra overhead for the employer different from what a normal employee would cost. Either way, "everyone is paid the same, regardless of location" doesn't clarify much. Thus my original question.

by dcre 5y ago

dls2016 5y ago

Curious... if I'm still in the "triage" bucket after 6 weeks should I assume the ship has sailed? I was really hoping to hear back one way or the other!

quadruplebond 5y ago
They got back to me after about 5.5 weeks (it was a no, but nicely worded). I think they are just really busy.
dcre 5y ago
No, you will hear back. We're trying really hard to keep to the 6 weeks thing but sometimes we don't succeed.
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
- 0des 5y ago
  Please get back to them today, this is a prompt or cue to rescue this one from falling through the cracks. You never know...
- robocat 5y ago
  I would think that startups would want to bias for people that can make good decisions quickly, within a short decision time. Perhaps hardware startups want more conservative employees? Also in my experience, a fabulous candidate is sometimes only available for a very short time window (they either have become available due to unforeseen circumstances, or they are snapped up by a faster mover). Is six weeks fast in your opinion?
  - steveklabnik 5y ago
    In general: no, we'd love for things to be faster than six weeks. We just get a tremendous amount of applicants, and we have a lot of work to do. So the queue gets backed up. Hiring is hard.
  - dls2016 5y ago
    Not insinuating that I'm a "fabulous" candidate (also totally possible that I am!), but I've been experiencing the opposite. The quickest offers I've received have had the most red flags. The places I'd like to work seem to move slower and require more preparation. For instance Oxide has applicants put together a lot of written work and another company has a seemingly easy take-home project but which requires unfamiliar (to me) setup that I haven't had time to tackle. Then there are the faang-style interviews with loops scheduled perhaps weeks in the future. I may send another round of applications soon, but I'm going to be more selective so I can manage the process better.
- dls2016 5y ago
  Thank you, that does help. I thankfully have some flexibility in my search… and I promise the other replies aren’t alt accounts!

rcarmo 5y ago

All your positions seem to be US-based, though. Or am I missing something?

benjaminleonard 5y ago
All the positions on the site currently are remote friendly. I work for Oxide remotely from the UK – you just need a reasonable overlap with PT, I overlap four hours most days.
- glandium 5y ago
  I'm curious how that works with the one-salary policy.
  - benjaminleonard 5y ago
    Everyone is paid the same, regardless of location.
    - glandium 5y ago
      I won't claim to know how salaries work in the US, but from what I know in some other countries, there is an employer overhead to salary, so for a salary of x, the employer is actually lining up x times k, with k larger than 1. However, if you're not in the US, you're either an independent contractor or an employee in a GEO or something of the sort. In the first case, you would bill something and get a salary out of it. If you bill x, a) your income is in dollars rather than local currency, which from experience is not great, b) you cost less to the company than US employees who cost x times k, c) you have to pay your own overhead before making it a salary. So if you bill x, your salary is less than x, and you still have to pay taxes on that salary. If GEO or other similar arrangement, you're usually paid in local currency, presumably an amount corresponding to x at a given date, and that has extra overhead for the employer different from what a normal employee would cost. Either way, "everyone is paid the same, regardless of location" doesn't clarify much. Thus my original question.