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veron A Woman Finding Tech Jobs for the World’s Poorest People

i was very excited by this, and was thinking about donating money. then i read http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Samasource-Reviews-E483520.... - in particular, the 40% turnover rate within a year is very concerning.

veron In Silicon Valley, many want sharing salary info to be less taboo

I don't want you to make more money because you're a pretty good negotiator; I want that money distributed to employees based on engineering results rather than negotiating skills. I don't want engineers who are focused on looking for and creating BATNA's and getting good at story telling rather than working as engineers.

veron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2015)

Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: possible

Willing to relocate: unlikely

Technologies: Python

Resume/CV/email: please pm

Back-end mid level engineer interested in transportation/scheduling.

Strengths: data analysis, big picture awareness, algorithmic design, maintainable code, bug fixing.

Weaknesses: front end / devops

Other: looking to work in a 10-100 person company with a tangible product, a 40 hour workweek, and a long term perspective.