descentintomael

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by descentintomael 7y ago
Thank you for publishing this! I work for a small fintech company and I find it really hard to get good data on what salaries should be outside of one-off anecdotes. I also agree that you should pay local rates. I looked at the non-SF Cali
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by descentintomael 8y ago
FWIW, I used to work at one of the companies mentioned. Tara was a good employee who resigned. She was not fired as Ms. Peatman claims. Its sad that Glassdoor is just another gaslighting outlet on the internet.
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by descentintomael 13y ago
This is great for people with mental health issues like OCD. My fiancée (who has OCD) was forced to finally upgrade to a touchscreen smartphone, but I still had to get him a keyboard case so that he would have physical keys to press. Tryi
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by descentintomael 14y ago
Since these are just a small handful of larger companies, doesn't that mean that they are screwing over their best, most loyal customers?
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by descentintomael 15y ago
I've never lived in Boston, but I've lived in SF and current live in the Valley and I have to say that SF is awesome for public transit (when it's on time) and SV is better for bike because of the bike lanes. SamTrans on the peninsula is a
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by descentintomael 15y ago
Is this because no one likes PayPal? Personally I've been screwed over by PayPal using Etsy when a seller didn't ship. It's since made me hesitant to buy anything there.
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by descentintomael 15y ago
Good point. Two companies I know of (Expensify.com and Trap.it) get around this to a certain degree by hosting on multiple vendors. With that they are better able to account for sudden changes to the market if one goes down or drastically
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by descentintomael 15y ago
Coming from a background of having to deal with the highest level of PCI-DSS scrutiny, this makes total sense. It would have been soooooo much easier to just point the auditors to the managed hosting service and say, "ask them, they're the
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by descentintomael 15y ago
Wow, I could totally see this evolving into a great collaborative design suite.
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by descentintomael 15y ago
I'm on my first start up right now so I don't have a whole lot of advice, but all I can say is personalities count. In a small environment like that you need to make sure that you can get along well with everyone there. Get to know the te