kzhahou

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by kzhahou 11y ago
We're taking about whether to negotiate vs. just taking first offer from company. Even if money isn't your TOP priority (vs flexible hours, etc) and you love the work opportunity being offered to you, you should still negotiate u
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by kzhahou 11y ago
Yup. And btw, it would have taken you two years of busting your ass to get that job title promotion otherwise. Exactly why it's so important to negotiate hard up front, before you start.
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by kzhahou 11y ago
Does it really happen so often that there's someone you'd hire, but they want more than your absolute max? In my experience, just FINDING good people is 95% of the challenge -- compensation is not a common-blocker to make it a fi
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by kzhahou 11y ago
But the question is whether you could have negotiated an extra $15K --for the SAME surf-friendly job you have now-- just by holding out for 1 more day during the interview/hiring process.
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by kzhahou 11y ago
> Fake the confidence here. If they say, “What are your salary requirements?” You say, “Well, it’s really too early to talk about salary. I just really want to make sure that we’re a great fit for each other. If we’re a great fit for eac
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by kzhahou 11y ago
Obviously if you can pull it off then you're golden. But we're discussing the early pitch here. It's not enough to say We'll do the same as product X but BETTER. That's totally generic and not a plan. So there has
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by kzhahou 11y ago
Ok, but slack is just like campfire/hipchat/yammer/etc and none of those have come close to the outcome you're proposing. So what does "your" product, Slack, plan to do to actually achieve this, besides just b
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by kzhahou 11y ago
> It's important to articulate why the company will eventually be in a strategically valuable position (i.e. a monopoly). Is it possible to ever answer this in a meaningful way, besides "we're going to be the best and get
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by kzhahou 11y ago
How difficult would it be for a startup to create two stock classes, where one has outsized voting rights? Then the monetary value could be spread more evenly to non-founders (i.e., not a 50-to-1 ratio between founders and employee #1), wh
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by kzhahou 11y ago
Prime real estate that could otherwise help lower housing costs.
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by kzhahou 11y ago
And there's STILL people who insist Apple is bent on protecting the privacy of a dead terrorist...
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by kzhahou 11y ago
It's a subsection of the larger site, dedicated to a specific type of content. Vertical refers to them being fully-featured sites or application by themselves. For example, a real estate vertical might have search options dedicated t
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by kzhahou 11y ago
How many Yo's have we actually had? Not many.
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by kzhahou 11y ago
Take comfort in the fact that the CEOs and venture backers are still head-spinningly rich, as will be their grandchildren.
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by kzhahou 11y ago
Why the hostility? I'm not making any of this up. That bonus is typical of multiple places I've been, usually comprising 15% individual performance bonus and 15% company performance. And of course 150 sal != 300 sal. 300+ is to
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by kzhahou 11y ago
Those salaries on Glassdoor pretty much match what I'm saying, with salaries running up to $165 for senior devs. Add 30% for bonus and $100-150K in stock and you're into the $300K+ range I'm describing. The $600K+ figure is f
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by kzhahou 11y ago
Big tech companies in silicon valley.
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by kzhahou 11y ago
I think you're being DV'd because people think you're saying "this is just finger." But I think you're actually reminding people of that old service, which won't be familiar to newer generation, and was u
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by kzhahou 11y ago
You should share that data, help your fellow job hunters. Last time I worked at a BigTechCo, salary ranges were $85-100K for juniors, 120-130 mid-level, and 150-165 for senior devs. Bonuses tend to hover around 30%. Of course, stock grants
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by kzhahou 11y ago
Self-jumping shark
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by kzhahou 11y ago
They weren't perfect by far. For years I've seen people struggle to figure out something as basic as creating a playlist or syncing to a new device. It's perhaps always been better software than windows counterparts, it al
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by kzhahou 11y ago
This is a rare opportunity where a regular person can hold a member of the Bush pro-war team accountable, if even in some small way.
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by kzhahou 11y ago
I'm not sure I learned anything about them, but I do feel very centered now.
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by kzhahou 11y ago
I'm glad NYT writer and so many HN posters finally figured out the correct way to raise kids, and are sharing it here. I thought we'd have to wait another 5000 years for it.
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by kzhahou 11y ago
It's actually the exact definition of ad hominem tu quoque.
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Ad hominem
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by kzhahou 11y ago
On the bright side, that could be the first day of the rest of your life! How about it? Ready to shake things up and get a fresh start?
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by kzhahou 11y ago
It's common and its bullshit. If founders take from funding then so should employees. They should be able to stop worrying about money as much as the founders.
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by kzhahou 11y ago
Actually, minimaxir, when the stories first broke a few months ago, it was the rare case where VCs and SV insiders did criticize publicly. Google Ventures (bill Maris), e.g. I can dig up the other examples too.
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by kzhahou 11y ago
Black bar is an empty gesture. Who does it serve? He died, his ideas didn't.

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