This would be cool. biggest hurdle would probably be employees taking company secrets with them, so maybe it would work better with only open source development

Where do these salary numbers come from?

I have to agree, 150k for senior engineer? I would say 100-120k for senior engineer, 75-100k for engineer, 50-60k for intern.

For the Bay Area these days, those numbers seem about right. Big companies pay 100k to new grads

Seconded. Engineering salaries have jumped significantly recently. With 2 years experience out of college I've seen people getting offers of 120k - 140k.

Those numbers are what I'd expect to find in Houston, not in San Francisco.

It'd be hard to get me to move to SF in a senior role for anything less than $120k.

Are you in SF? I'm in Houston, and 100K is closer to the norm for engineers here, but of course, 100K wouldn't go as far in SF. Were I to take a job in SF, I'd probably need a $20K-30K premium.

Damn, sounds like I need to go down there then.

I'm in my first midlevel engineering position and including my year end bonus I make about 125k and this was the salary they offered me. My asking price was below what they offered.

Is there only a 20% difference between someone with 5-10 years of experience and someone straight out of college??

For the long-term career-conscious and money-hungry, it almost makes you want to plan a trajectory that doesn't plateau at "senior engineer". That seems like a shame/misuse of resources, doesn't it?

I started a new job only six months ago and it feels like I have been there for more than a year already! Probably all the new experiences: 2 international trips and one domestic and lots and lots of learning

Interesting. Where are you getting the stock data from?

Thanks! Let me know if you have any suggestions. I'm scraping Google's API currently, which is fine for the major stock exchanges in terms of immediacy, but lacking for the niche markets. The scraping portion is open sourced too: https://github.com/matthewpalmer/stockalert-scraper

I too was disappointed from my salary offer in the Bay area but decided to take it anyway. I was making the bet that I just needed to get out here before I could really make any significant moves up career wise.

You mention getting intros from your network. A first-timer is probably less likely to have people in their network who could introduce them to a VC, although they may have a large network. Accelerators like Y Combinator seem to solve this problem, but what about those outside of the accelerators?

I'm not too concerned about the current lack of charging stations. More will come. I am sure Wyoming was one of the last states to get cell coverage too.

Will they also lead the trend in riding in cars that drive themselves?

Maybe, but my theory is that this stems from a couple of factors: 1) Higher driving costs, and lower incomes/ higher unemployment. 2) Less appeal of consumerist lifestyle 3) Preference for walkable neighborhoods 4) Strong avoidance of situations that involve drinking and driving

Only the last one is a case that they'll be interested in self driving cars.

Cool project.

I actually don't like the use of offset however. Why do I want to offset Chic Fil A? If I don't even eat there--I don't have anything to offset. Offset also makes me feel like I am helping to return to the current status quo. What if I don't want the status quo? What if I just want to fight Chic Fil A?

I think that the idea that users contributing a small amount of money to combat the negative spending of some corporations is incredibly sticky. ("Look at the power of my small dollars! I'm making this evil corporation burn their money!").

But how do you convince visitors to the site that this math adds up? Users may want to donate but would probably be more likely to donate if they were convinced their dollars had that much power. Maybe an infographic explaining it?

I like this speech and just recently discovered it. I intend to read some of David Foster Wallace's writing in the near future too. Sad story about the guy though.