oxidethrowaway

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by oxidethrowaway 5y ago
That’s why I asked about equity. If they’re giving significant equity then I have no problems with the $175K compensation limit. One of my favorite employers right out of college did almost exactly this same thing: Everyone gets paid the sa
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by oxidethrowaway 5y ago
Rust in Cryptocurrency is mostly a marketing play (and I say this as someone who does a lot of Rust). Are there even any cryptocurrencies that allowed less-safe languages like C in the first place? In my opinion (as a Rust dev), Rust is wei
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by oxidethrowaway 5y ago
In my first-hand experience interviewing at other startups (Q3 and Q4 2021) it’s definitely not competitive. Startups are unbelievably well-funded right now and capital is cheap and easy to come by. Even small startups don’t hesitate to com
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by oxidethrowaway 5y ago
Yes! Of course it is, but employment is a market like anything else. The difference between $175K and market rate compensation (which may be significantly higher right now, considering the job market and the skills they’re asking for) is ca
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by oxidethrowaway 5y ago
> To the point they did a blog post trying to defend their use of C, I do a lot of Rust work, but C still occupies a prominent place in my toolkit. In fact, this is fairly standard among all of the professionals I know. The idea that com
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by oxidethrowaway 5y ago
Oxide’s work is always interesting and basically a perfect confluence of all of my combined hardware and software experience to date. However, I can’t quite get over their policy of paying everyone the same salary of $175,000. ( https:&#x2