Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

Thanks so much for noting this! This is a big miss with the current filtering logic. I will get it fix next. This is my fault as I notice most positions in reddit are remote so I falsely assume that it is a remote company. They are hybrid it seems.

Its an aggregator which means its probably not perfect as its looking for keywords or something.

Anecdotally, I found a new job this year, and my last one was in 2021. Salaries are across the board lower and more competitive. Seeing remote jobs offering Seniors $120-150k is pretty normal now, where I think in 2021 you would have seen $150k as a bottom. Some of the remote Series B and Big Tech places pay better though.

> Context: Was a senior SWE in SF for Airbnb until 2020.

Working in San Francisco, in-person/hybrid, at a company that ranks among the top of the industry is always going to pay higher than remote jobs hiring anywhere.

Part of the goal of remote hiring is to expand the candidate pool, which reduces the need to hire at exorbitant salaries in small, highly competitive markets.

People complain about remote workers getting different pay, but at the end of the day it means higher compensation for people outside of those few select cities.

Did you join Airbnb before its IPO perhaps? I suppose pre-IPO companies usually offer higher base since their equities can't be liquidated until post-IPO.

Remote salaries will generally be lower than SF salaries.

Cost of living adjusted though, they may be higher.

What a cynical take. If that were the case, every remote company would be staffed exclusively by north Koreans.

Thanks for your suggestion! I haven't looked into non-US countries yet, but that is a helpful pointer given India is the most populous country in the world now. I will keep this in mind. Are you based in India? How is the remote landscape there?

So all these companies can get spammed with fake Indian resumes?

No.

Thanks for the feedback. I think the lag might have been mainly due to the page loading and rendering 400+ job rows at once and is not related to the animation, though there might also be some hydration issues with the animation. Agree that the lag isn't good UX, I will look into getting it fixed soon.

Aside from the lag, I was hoping folks might appreciate the artistic of the animations where companies are resolving around a remote coding home :)

Sorry again for the lag. I just fixed 2 bugs (table and store hydration) that should massively improve it if you would like to try again. Thanks

The animation stops because it gets blocked and appears to be locked up due to an issue with the table taking too long to render and another bug causing the table to re-render again.

My phone froze for 5 seconds

Very nice, love it! I didn't use any gpt or llm btw. I had a nice regex system set up to parse location and salary reliably in a few ms.

nice site. it would be nice to have the salary info and some filters, but either way solid build

Thank you for your kind words! I have this question on the faq page and am attaching the answer below:

4. Where are the salary data sourced from?

Tech companies typically structure salary, often called total compensation, into 3 parts: base salary, equity, and bonus.

Base salary is pulled directly from each job post, thanks to the U.S. Pay Transparency laws (e.g. California SB-1162 in 2011), which require companies to include salary ranges in job listings to help address wage gaps caused by bias or discrimination.

Total compensation is sourced from levels.fyi, a platform that collects leveling and salary info through crowdsourcing.

Unfortunately, current laws in many states, such as Washington RCW 49.58.110 in 2022, only require companies to provide base salary ranges along with a general description of other forms of compensation. This allows companies to omit equity and bonus details. Hopefully, future legislation will help close this gap.

Lots of companies continue to hire even as they cut jobs. I would even say it is normal. Ghost jobs do also exist.

> If they were actually hiring they could have easily shifted existing workers into those.

I wouldn't assume that it's appropriate to shift people in a layoff to new roles within a company. I remember, when working at Intel, that some people were given opportunity (and preference) to apply to internal roles before being asked to leave.

That being said, not everyone is a good fit to transition to open roles. Other times, a certain amount of headcount turnover is healthy. (I personally felt like a lot of Intel's woes were due to the organization being too insular; and a certain amount of turnover would have helped them.)

This is a great question! I think it is something that the platform can potentially address in the future via community inputs, e.g. people can report they have submitted to this position but never heard back within a week/few weeks. The more a position gets reported, the more indication that it is a ghost job. I am open for ideas here.

Sometimes, companies shift engineers whenever they can before layoffs, and sometimes, they let go folks to rehire or hire back folks that were laid off if rehire proves difficult. I am not sure why companies do this but have seem it happens.

"Huge" may be an overstatement. They laid off 6,000 people which is obviously a lot of individuals losing their jobs but only represents 3% of the company. In today's market a 3% layoff is comparatively small.

I've never heard of a company doing a layoff in the way you describe, eliminating thousands of roles and immediately moving those people into open roles throughout the company. It assumes the employees are fungible and will be a good fit for any open position and would lead to everyone knowing the layoff is coming well before its announced.

One good news is that US remote companies have been expanding to Europe, which will drive up salaries there over time to attract top talents. Gergely Orosz's Trimodal Nature of Tech Compensation in the US, UK and India has info on top paying companies in UK: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/trimodal

Never forget that taxing and social systems in Europe work very different and that's why you can get by with "lower" incomes.

They do to an extent - plenty of 120-150k fully remote or one-day-a-month jobs based out of Dublin, Ireland. Just that our tax rate is 52% over 75k, and our capital gains is 33% after an allowance of €1270, so they tend to trade-off hours and responsibility for pure salary at the most senior levels.

Agree. These are insane

Be careful what you wish for, unless you want tech oligarchs messing with your governments as well.

Just sort by column in the table and leave search to the browser would go a long way.

Thanks. Yes, both are on the roadmap and will be launched next.

Thanks for your kind words! I haven't offered any public feed/api yet. Your project looks very cool. Will look more into it and circle back if I open up integration.