They had already pivoted aimlessly after their first pizza robot business failed a few years ago; they've been on their last legs for a long time.
Readit Newslsj0627 commented on Fallen Pizza Startup Zume Shuts Down After Raising Millions bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mirthlessend
lsj0627 commented on Ask HN: Hiring Managers, do you have a LinkedIn Premium account for recruiting? · Posted by u/lsj0627
When I've been a hiring manager I have both used it and not used it.
It depends on what sources you have for your candidates; if you are doing your own outreach then it is invaluable and you'd be hobbled without it.
However doing your own outreach won't scale (i.e. if you need to hire a lot) and may not be a good match if you have other time-consuming aspects to your role.
Good to know, thanks for sharing!
lsj0627 commented on Oxide pays all employees $191,227 (Bay Area startup) oxide.computer/blog/compe... · Posted by u/lsj0627
I don’t think this is accurate (and it is not in my experience)
levels.fyi puts the median salary for _juniors_ at 180k and the 90th percentile at 230k. The data is obviously imperfect but on average it’s fairly accurate. My personal experience also aligns with this.
Senior is around 300-500k and Staff/Manager can get extremely silly.
For startups, Levels.fyi is not a useful resource.
lsj0627 commented on Oxide pays all employees $191,227 (Bay Area startup) oxide.computer/blog/compe... · Posted by u/lsj0627
I am SO baffled. First, this post is two years old -- and has been discussed on HN several times[0][1], but the tenor of the comments here now is just so... vitriolic. I would like to do a blog post on an update on this (the dollar figure is now $191K as the blog post indicates, but the number of employees is now 60) and in particular reflect on some of its many surprising ramifications (all positive), but honestly some of the unhinged comments here have me questioning the judgement of that. Am I the only one seeing a changing tenor here at HN?
Hey Bryan - it's me, again (the poster).
The transparency is great and is clearly a value-add for candidates, IMO.
But the salary simply does not compete with HCOL Startup Senior+ Engineers (around 20- 40% lower than Staff level).
That said, Oxide is in a unique class of startups that can still hire strong talent despite this pay deficit (whether due to an exceptional product, team, technical challenge, or other rare attribute). I know a Software Engineer who just took a 25% pay cut to join a construction analytics SaaS startup because he has heard his brother (a Surveyor) complain specifically about problems this company's solving!
lsj0627 commented on Oxide pays all employees $191,227 (Bay Area startup) oxide.computer/blog/compe... · Posted by u/lsj0627
Probably projecting, but I imagine this is being posted in light of this thread under a comment by Bryan from the other day under an SVB post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35128789
I was actually completely unaware of Oxide's or Bryan's existence until yesterday - I had no clue they were both known on here, let alone so popular!
I'm just an HN user who was browsing jobs, found this one that listed the exact salary (with this link to their philosophy) - I had never seen this approach before and wanted to hear what HN felt about it.
But if nothing else, marriage is an agreement that you’re not just gonna nope out when there’s adversity or when something better comes along. It’s a powerful mutual gesture.
If you aren’t compelled by that idea, there’s someone out there who will. Maybe you have to dump your current 6-year-long situationship to go look for them, but hey, it’s not like you’re married. ;)
Source: A 40-year old who has no interest in marriage and only saw it as an "antiquated social construct" when I was younger. I learned there's more to it.