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[Infographic] Silicon Valley Engineering Salaries In 2012

YoungUpstarts

The continuing tech boom has resulted in strong competition for top engineering talent, resulting in a subsequent upward surge in salary scales as well. percent in the final quarter of 2012, overall average annual salaries has increased 3.7-percent But how much has it grown? Despite a year-on-year fall of 3.6-percent

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Intermediate C++ 3D Graphics Developer

Transformify

sockets, TCP connection) • Shader programming • Unreal Engine. Preferred experience with: • Voxel modeling • Digital Signal Processing • Visual Studio • Network programming (e.g. Hourly rate range is $15-$22 depending on skills and experience.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

This includes establishing sales objectives and compensation plans for all sales personnel, including salary structures, commission plans, sales contests and bonus plans. We are looking for a seasoned engineer with management experience to take ownership of our engineering team.

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How to hack the recruitment process to find the best developers for your startup or agency

The Next Web

Our advert gets copied and reposted (often with incorrect embellishments, including salaries way below what we pay) then within days they get in contact promising they’ve found some developers for us as if we haven’t noticed this blatant copyright infringement. Not PHP, not ASP.net, not XYZ tech. ” RC: “[pause]… PHP?”

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

How To Calculate Whether A Freelance Web Application Programmer Is Asking For Too Much Step 1: Use the Indeed.com Salary Tool to Search for Their Job Title By Salary Level. The generally accepted hourly wage calculation used by the staffing industry is Annual Salary divided by 2000 Hours. at this stage.

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How I Found a Great CTO

www.huffingtonpost.com

However, we needed a head of engineering to recruit and lead a larger team to accomplish our larger goals. I felt that I had to re-educate myself on the engineering talent landscape given how fast it is evolving, and had a deep curiosity regarding what the best engineering leaders of right now looked like.

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Austin in San Francisco

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

the most online-visible person at WP Engine. I was about to give a night-time talk about making websites fast at a local Austin PHP users group; did anyone at the office want to come? .” I vividly recall the moment when I connected on this level with Austin Gunter — our social media keymaster (are you the gatekeeper?),