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Quora, DropBox, Others Made $30M in Job Offers To Engineers via DeveloperAuction

by vrikhter on 9/6/12, 11:10 PM with 9 comments

• by droithomme on 9/7/12, 3:04 AM

  > "currently open only to employees of Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Zynga, and Google as well as Stanford & MIT graduates"

  So it's really a site for a small number (130+) of "start-ups" (all sharing some common investors?) to poach talent from an extremely small A List of the biggest tech companies around.

  The $30 million for 88 engineers is an average of $341,000 per engineer. It sounds like they are adding up all the offers for every engineer rather than the top offer for each engineer. Perhaps some got no offers. Perhaps some got 20 offers of $50,000. The $30 million total offers for 88 engineers tells us almost nothing.

• by up_and_up on 9/7/12, 4:16 AM

  "DeveloperAuction.com is currently open only to employees of Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Zynga, and Google as well as Stanford & MIT graduates"

  Wow. I guess I'll take my lowly UC Berkeley degree and startup VPE experience somewhere else. What a crock of elitist bullshit.

• by 23david on 9/7/12, 1:38 AM

  Isn't the point that the job offers amounts are supposed to go up for good developers because of the auction format? Don't necessarily blame developerauction.

  It's probably just some intern or SEO monkey at AOL/Techcrunch completely blowing the headline. Not exactly the first time I've been underwhelmed by their reporting prowess.

• by gobengo on 9/7/12, 4:43 AM

  Because as a startup hacker, I always want to work where I will earn the most.

• by Evbn on 9/7/12, 12:19 AM

  Seems like a vanity metric to sum all the offers, which can't be simultaneously satisfied. instead of keeping separate the counts amd something like average or max per company or candidate.