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by Phlarp 3849 days ago
>I think there's quite a bit of inflation in startup job offers.

I think you're living in a willfully ignorant echo chamber
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hardwaresofton 3849 days ago
I don't think I understand this comment enough to refute it...

Are you saying that there startup job offers aren't inflated? Or that they are?

Are you assuming I live in SV?

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simoncion 3849 days ago
> Are you saying that there startup job offers aren't inflated? Or that they are?

Aren't. Conventional wisdom is that folks who work for a startup take a significant haircut vs. working for an established company.

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hardwaresofton 3849 days ago
Thanks for clarifying.

I made the comment because I find that startups (or the recent brand of startups with crazy valuations and relatively cheap operating costs) are the ones that push 80K/90K+ salaries (at the very least) for people straight out of college and nice office perks.

A few years ago (and probably still now), people could get hired by big companies like HP/Dell/Intel/Oracle (or other big companies whose main competency isn't necessarily computing) with relatively low salaries (lets say 60K or 70K). This only really applies to recent grads/relatively young developers though, I guess.

I see now that I had it backwards.

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