dsolomon

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by dsolomon 14y ago
More junk.
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by dsolomon 14y ago
Yup - I hate the HR hype (you're HR right) that "OMG LOOK @ WUT WE PAYZ!!!!111". I've spent the past 10+ years as a defense contractor working cleared programs. I've seen all sorts of sleazy work done by HR and management to push salaries
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by dsolomon 14y ago
HR makes the sell that "after a few years the candidate -could- be making that kind of money". The few years never really come, so the employee moves on. Except that the next company makes the same commitment.
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by dsolomon 14y ago
And each one of those has been found to fluff salary data.
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by dsolomon 14y ago
Companies use HR to fluff the salaries and paint a prettier picture.
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by dsolomon 14y ago
Garbage
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by dsolomon 14y ago
That's worse than the OP's link. If any company paid that much there'd be a line at the front door every single day of people wanting to be hired.
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by dsolomon 14y ago
Certainly strike that from the credible list.
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by dsolomon 14y ago
I've worked for 4 companies within http://washingtontechnology.com/toplists/top-100-lists/2011.... The rates that I've seen has actually gone down, Back in 2001 a developer with a TS/SCI/FSP would get around $45K with about 5 years exper
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by dsolomon 14y ago
Top companies? LOL - I remember being contacted by Google (whatever division they have in the Washington DC area). They wouldn't commit to providing the hardware or software to do the job, or even keep the benefits the same when you move
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by dsolomon 14y ago
Haven't seen, or known, anyone close to that in 10 years of being a DoD contractor.
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by dsolomon 14y ago
Your reference is like citing Ms Cleo - pathetic actually. If companies actually paid those amounts listed there'd be a line of applicants at the front door every single morning wanted the job.
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by dsolomon 14y ago
You're "facts" are far from that. The developers we have onsite with the customer (Department of Defense with Top Secret clearances) are paid roughly $40-50K/yr USD. If there were companies that actually paid the salaries you're quoting the
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by dsolomon 14y ago
I wish. I'd like to see salaries return to the pre-dotbomb days 10+ years ago.
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by dsolomon 15y ago
Thats a huge F * Y to a large customer base.
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by dsolomon 15y ago
If this piece of shit driod 4 drops connection one more time. My blackberry never required a reboot to pick up signal - droids, yup.
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by dsolomon 15y ago
Talk about Google scraping the bottom of the barrel. "Remember, digg failed because it alienated the users, attempted to wrap too much UI around the content; limiting the consumption rate, and pandering to media channels." Bingo. Unless us
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by dsolomon 15y ago
A couple of friends and I got this idea a few years ago. We've accumulated over 340 companies their recruiters who are less than desirable. Inflated salaries lead the pack of the tactics used. Posting misleading information about the job
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by dsolomon 15y ago
I'd love that. I've seen cube sharing and even PC sharing. I interviewed with one company where the developers sat in some leftover space between a cubical wall and a real wall. Another company I worked at a 3 to 4 person "suite" measured i
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by dsolomon 15y ago
Look how well things turned out for the PM of BOB!
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by dsolomon 15y ago
UW reporting in (87-91) Way back when ... there weren't really career fairs. The big 4 (Microsoft, Boeing, Safeco, and Weyerhaeuser) just advertised in the paper. If there was a cool time to work for them it had to have been before then.
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by dsolomon 15y ago
Great way to keep employee salaries low.
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by dsolomon 15y ago
So want people to blow off NDAs for your karma? Fail.
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by dsolomon 15y ago
Using Twitter, Tumblr, and Linkdin to determine suitability is like asking Dick Chaney if he's a nice guy. The results can and are easily stacked through bogus accounts. If a company thinks that professionals use those sites for professiona
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by dsolomon 15y ago
Calling BS. The author cited Dice, which is questionable at best.
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by dsolomon 15y ago
Finding quality people is easy. Finding a quality company is the difficult part.
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by dsolomon 15y ago
Author drew numbers from thin air resulting in horrible advice. Throw in - "For a funded startup which has enough engineers to warrant a foosball table, the company payroll is well north of $100,000 a month." - yet still require that employ
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by dsolomon 15y ago
The best strategy is to keep HR and recruiters out of the hiring and decision making process. Problem solved.
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by dsolomon 15y ago
I thought it was because 37signals didn't want their brainteasers splattered across reddit & ycombinator. Today I Learned ....
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by dsolomon 15y ago
Of the 100 people who look at his website searching for employment 90 are disinterested due to his poor grammar, spelling, and punctuation skills. Another eight realize that a professional services site with HTTP 403 and 404 errors isn’t t

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