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Varqu

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Software Developer living and working in Switzerland
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Varqu··on Show HN: 1,900 remote company profiles with tech stacks and employee benefits
Thanks!

Your site also works very well, particularly the very simple but slick design!

Varqu··on Why I left Google: work-life balance
They would have an ideal work-life balance IF they enabled full remote work.

Their hybrid you-have-to-come-to-the-office approach basically means that you still need to live in an area near to the office, which basically means no real benefits from remote setting.

Varqu··on Show HN: 1,900 remote company profiles with tech stacks and employee benefits
On our (shameless plug) job boards, we structured the sites around countries and you also have mandatory salary brackets (provided by the companies)

We also require them to provide full tech stacks, benefits and info how mature they are in Software Engineering (what kind of tests they write, what methodologies they use, etc.)

Feel free to take a look:

- UK: https://devitjobs.uk

- US: https://devitjobs.us

- Switzerland: https://swissdevjobs.ch

- Germany: https://germantechjobs.de

Varqu··on Ask HN: Is Stack Overflow jobs gone?
We also submitted our platform (https://devitjobs.uk) recently (didn't gain much spotlight on HN, though) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30877735

The approach is similar to the Joel-Test where we ask companies a set of questions to evaluate their development maturity & craftsmanship:

- how they write tests

- do they use static analysis & CI/CD

- if they have dedicated testers, etc.

Varqu··on Show HN: DevITjobs – a StackOverflow Jobs alternative with required salary data
(Co-Founder & CTO here) We started the platform in 2019 and grew to over 90'000 unique monthly visitors so far.

Each company is vetted before posting jobs, and we disqualify companies which:

- don't want to publish salary data

- don't describe their tech stack & development maturity

This means that we say "No" to many companies, but enables a more transparent job search experience for the candidates.

If you have any suggestions regarding the UX/UI - you are more than welcome to mention them :)

The platform is split into countries:

- UK https://devitjobs.uk

- US https://devitjobs.us

- Netherlands: https://devitjobs.nl

- Switzerland: https://swissdevjobs.ch

- Germany: https://germantechjobs.de

- Romania: https://devjob.ro

Varqu··on Pay Transparency: European Commission proposes measures
Which job boards with salary ranges do you use?
Varqu··on RIP Stack Overflow Jobs
It is available in the advanced filters. The reason it is not in the main filters: there are too few jobs with Clojure.
Varqu··on RIP Stack Overflow Jobs
We have a different approach: we require each company to publish salary brackets - which was not the case for StackOverflow - it was voluntary there.
Varqu··on RIP Stack Overflow Jobs
Thanks for the feedback, working on fixing it!

As for the first question: it depends on which country do you target, essentially on each site you can filter to find remote roles and some roles that offer Visa Sponsorship (which is important in case you would like to move to Europe)

Varqu··on RIP Stack Overflow Jobs
Actually we have all the features that you mention - I posted the links to our job boards in another comment.
Varqu··on RIP Stack Overflow Jobs
It's not there yet but planned to be added in the future. Convincing companies to publish real salary brackets is not an easy task and therefore we also want to balance it a bit.
Varqu··on RIP Stack Overflow Jobs
No, not affiliated.
Varqu··on RIP Stack Overflow Jobs
We run a few Developer-dedicated job boards[1] with focus on transparency and:

- mandatory salary information (with real brackets and no $1 - $1M)

- our own engineering test (do they have proper CI/CD, write tests, have QAs, etc.)

- full tech stack information

[1] The sites are per country:

- US: https://devitjobs.us

- UK: https://devitjobs.uk

- Netherlands: https://devitjobs.nl

- Switzerland: https://swissdevjobs.ch/

- Germany: https://germantechjobs.de/en/

- Romania: https://devjob.ro/en/

There is also this site (not affiliated) which lists over 70 alternative job boards:

https://stackoverflowjobsalternatives.com/

Varqu··on StackOverflow: Sunsetting Jobs and Developer Story by April 2022
We run a few local developer focused job boards (with emphasis for transparency) in the US, UK, Germany and Switzerland (my comment above)
Varqu··on StackOverflow: Sunsetting Jobs and Developer Story by April 2022
Salary transparency should be the standard.
Varqu··on StackOverflow: Sunsetting Jobs and Developer Story by April 2022
Yes! We run a job board platform in Europe (and just entered the US market last year)

Turns out that developers really appreciate a no-bullshit approach with: - mandatory salary brackets

- full tech stack and easy filtering

- our own dev maturity test (what tests do they write, do they have dedicated QAs, etc)

It enables us to quickly grow to over 60'000 monthly visitors (combined) and the companies are also more than happy to advertise.

For anyone interested:

- US: https://devitjobs.us

- Europe: https://devitjobs.uk, https://swissdevjobs.ch, https://germantechjobs.de

Varqu··on StackOverflow: Sunsetting Jobs and Developer Story by April 2022
They run the top most visited by developers website. Which means the supply is already there.

Companies would do basically everything to reach the developers, so I this would be a perfect match.

Varqu··on Ask HN: With StackOverflow Jobs closing soon, what are some good alternatives?
We also run a few IT-dedicated job boards[1] which include:

- mandatory salary information (with real brackets and no $1 - $1M)

- our own engineering test (do they have proper CI/CD, write tests, have QAs, etc.)

- full tech stack information

[1] The sites are per country:

- US: https://devitjobs.us

- UK: https://devitjobs.uk

- Netherlands: https://devitjobs.nl

- Switzerland: https://swissdevjobs.ch/

- Germany: https://germantechjobs.de/en/

- Romania: https://devjob.ro/en/

Varqu··on Ask HN: How do small companies do recruitment?
Thanks, fixed!
Varqu··on Ask HN: How do small companies do recruitment?
We run a few developer-dedicated job boards with mandatory salary information (and our own approach to the Joel-Test):

- UK: https://devitjobs.uk

- US: https://devitjobs.us

- Germany: https://germantechjobs.de

The audience is growing steadily and the US and UK sites are free to post (but you have to provide the salary)

Varqu··on Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
+1 on that.

We are using it on sites that generate between 15 and 100k monthly views [1], and it works flawlessly!

Also has a super easy API to add custom events (gone is the nightmare of configuring it in GTM)

[1] https://devitjobs.us and others

Varqu··on Ask HN: How are salaries for senior devs in Berlin at the moment?
You can check the salaries directly provided by companies on: https://germantechjobs.de/jobs/all/Berlin

(disclaimer: I am the co-founder of this job board)\

In your case, you would be looking at something between: 60'000 and 90'000 EUR.

Varqu··on CPB director: The Netherlands must ban Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
This way I can also reason that you are also directly harming people because you breath in Oxygen and breath out CO2.

By shopping for food you are also creating an economical incentive for companies to produce which accelerates climate change.

Please, lets be serious and reasonable.

Bitcoin probably creates more incentives for renewable energy (because it enables to "store" it) than any other initiative.

Varqu··on CPB director: The Netherlands must ban Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
There is a big difference between things that are directly harming to other people and things that the gov bans because they think they know better :)

It is basically saying: You are forced to participate in our inflationary financial system or we will arrest you.

Varqu··on CPB director: The Netherlands must ban Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
And how exactly do you make it illegal? Arrest people that own Bitcoin? Or ban them from the internet.

Good luck with that :)

Varqu··on CPB director: The Netherlands must ban Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
Good luck banning internet access.

Even if you ban crypto exchanges and money transfers to them, you cannot ban a single entity called Bitcoin Co, nor you can ban individuals from possessing it.

You could potentially ban crypto miners from using the electrical energy, but that doesn't ban Bitcoin either.

Any other ideas? :)

Varqu··on Scala 3.0
It looks like it's not the case, at least looking at: https://germantechjobs.de/jobs/Scala/all or https://swissdevjobs.ch/jobs/Scala/all
Varqu··on Why do people think that the US won WW2 in Europe?
USSR backstabbed Poland and occupied it since 1939.
Varqu··on Be in a field where tech is the limit
In many EU countries 50k is already top 10% salary for Engineers but it seems like things are changing and in Germany it can go up to even 100k+ EUR (as seen on GermanTechJobs.de)

Different story in Switzerland where you can easy get 140k+ CHF.

Varqu··on Show HN: Relocate.me – get your next tech job abroad
Agree on that - spent a few years in Switzerland and consider it the best place for devs in Europe.

Beautiful lakes and mountains are another nice perk there.

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