negrit

Not sure why you're getting down voted like this...

EDIT: It doesn't appear that bad anymore, but as soon as this comment was posted it got down voted pretty bad. Something fishy going on...

This sounds over complicated and the CTO sounds horrible.

The dev team hiring the engineers should gather together and write some specs. The leader should post the job online and then the team should deliberate on each candidate.

Everything else sounds like a waste of time.

Yes, my wording was bad. It's more like not startup friendly.

Then Facebook, Google, Apple & co could be the only one winning the hiring war.

Sponsoring someone would be too damn dangerous and expensive for smaller companies and startups.

I'm actually working on project that does pretty much everything your asking for :)

The wage is already part of the criteria for application. USCIS only accept application if the salary of the visa beneficiary is comparable to a US citizen salary doing the same job.

It is actually alarming how 'anti startup' USCIS can be. Here are list of fraud indicators they released: http://www.happyschools.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/h1b-v...

The facts 6 of the top 10 H1Bs sponsor are:

- Indian companies

- Using cheap labor

- Paying significantly less then other companies.

- Responsible for almost 50% of all H1B applications

Driving the salaries by immigration is an historical complaint worldwide. HackerNews or not.

You're less likely to get a H1B at a startup yes but it's not for the reasons you think.

For a company to apply to a H1B visa they have to prove they have enough financial assets to not get bust.

There are however several reasons why startups are not sponsoring H1B visas as much as they should:

-It's time consuming. It really takes a lot of time, most of the immigration law firm are not startup friendly and are using old schools forms and stuff.

- They are not educated on visas sponsoring. They just don't know what it takes and stuff.

I'm here talking from experiences

There is. Lately, a lot of the top companies sponsoring for visa are getting in trouble because of fraud[1].

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023045275045791674...

By law, foreigners should not have a lower salary. When a company sponsor an employee for a visa, the salary is one of the criteria to check for the immigration. They should/have to make sure it match the average salary in the office location. So, if the office is in Boulder, CO instead of San Francisco then it's ok to not pay your employee $100k+.

But a least 4 of the top 10 companies sponsoring for visas in the US are playing very dirty[1][2][3][4] and pay there employee a lot less than they should.

And for what it's worth, most of this companies, now in trouble, are:

- Exploiting cheap labor from India.

- Compromising career and future opportunity of the employee they sponsor

- Affecting thousands of other visa applicants workers who want to move to the US and can't due to the illegal practice of those companies.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023045275045791674...

[2] http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-04-04/news...

[3] http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-07-20/news...

[4] http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/feb2009/...

This is not relevant:

> The best city for software engineers was Menlo Park with an average salary of $130,640

The best city for software engineers should not determined on salary only.

If the cost of living is 10X cheaper in Huntington Beach and the average salary is $125k then the best city by far is Huntington Beach. Then again there is a lot more than salary to consider before moving to a city...

In an ideal world yes but:

> Mention of someone, to make him/her aware that job may interest him/her

it rarely end up in having this person mentioned applying for the job. I can't recall the last time it happened.

> Someone saying that the company is awesome they have worked there or know the founders, ...

To be honest, I don't really care what you think of the company or the founders. I want to know why.

We tend to stop the mocking, it happen a lot less nowadays.

The thing with the monthly threads is that there is rarely a followup on the questions.

So i've been running a private job board with 3k members for few years now. People can comment on job posts.

There are 4 kinds of comments:

* Mention of someone, to make him/her aware that job may interest him/her

* Correct the person who posted on the job on a typo

* Mocking the job. Often a big circle jerk we have to moderate

* Someone saying that the company is awesome they have worked there or know the founders, ...

I find it quite interesting however, it's never really bringing anything valuable to the job post. The comments are never about asking what are the use of X language, how are the teams, ....

Looking at the list: http://yclist.com There are not so much YC companies that have exits. Having equity in bigger ones like airbnb, dropbox or stripe is worth peanuts until they either go public or get acquired

YC company or not, taking a lot of equity for a lower salary it's still a gamble. At the end it's a matter of you believing the team you're joining can make it big or not.

Sriracha used to be a lot more hot. The problem is that if it's too hot then you use less then you eat less then you buy less.

Pretty sure he had to do a compromise to increase sales.

We already lost.

Stupid shit like this done by the FBI is causing tax payer money. If Sergey Aleynikov wins then guess where the money will come from...

I always thought people should be financially accountable for their actions. The only thing that really work, is touching the wallet.

It's time to stop repeating like a parrot what everyone said 10 years ago.

Nowadays people in Paris are friendly enough and speak english.

Which is everywhere in Paris...

No its not.

Paris is the most touristic city in the world.

You can be perfectly fine if you don't speak word of french.

Yes, they do speak english.

They had to apply for working visas. The salary is mentioned in the visa application papers. I can't believe the guys in charge of the reviewing process let this go so I guess they are just lying.

Same in France. The US is just behind.

But you pay more taxes in California, so saving less. And forget about the cheap marina. And you're leaving your friends and family behind. So clearly, it sucks.

Is the technology going to be affordable ? I'm a big believer of free/affordable health care and such technology could have a big impact around the world.

sources ?

They also have a editing video software. It's currently free.

And they also organize events.

> The severity of financial impact on the victim is irrelevant.

Not if it actually damage some parts of the phone like the battery because you have to charge it more often.

I'm glad I checked the comments here... This design doesn't make sense.