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DeveloperAuction Expanding to Designers, Offering Free Intern Placement (techcrunch.com)
20 points by liberatus 4755 days ago
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socialist_coder 4755 days ago
Has anyone here ever used Developer Auctions? I'm curious if the engineers actually get higher salaries or if it's just on par with market value.
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Matt_Mickiewicz 4755 days ago
To be perfectly honest, 87% of candidates who go through the process and take a job, go with a company OTHER than the one that made the highest offer.

In fact, many more interview requests get rejected for "not interested in the company/industry" rather than insufficient compensation.

It's almost always more about the opportunity & the company, rather than the pay.

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socialist_coder 4755 days ago
For sure, I don't disagree with that. As a developer though, one reason I would try developer auctions is for a chance at some ludicrously high salary. I'm just wondering if that is the reality or not. Seems like it isn't.
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alekseyk 4755 days ago
Most of the offers I got were below market value, I only received one offer that was /kind/ of close to what people are paying good engineers in NYC but they did not want to continue since apparently they were looking for somebody to work 80 hour weeks.

No thanks.

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aweb 4755 days ago
The concept is really interesting, is there an equivalent of DeveloperAuction in Europe?
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