Hiring Questions

The startup I'm working for is likely to get acquired shortly. We get paid above market rates and it has been one of the reasons for low attrition here.Would an acquirer lower everyone's salary to...

Hiring Acquisition Salary Acqui Hire

asked Mar 3 '14 at 23:53

Clarine Nordberg
40 points

I'm a developer, who has been working solo on a startup for close to 12 months. The tech side is coming along well, but I'm acutely lacking in my business accumen, and sales skills. Here's some...

Co-Founder Hiring

asked Mar 20 '13 at 11:53

Marty Pitt
171 points

We're an enterprise services company and while there are no rules, everyone just automatically prefers to be dressed "old school".This has created a problem for us to attract designers in the bay...

Culture Hiring Design

asked Mar 2 '14 at 17:32

Michael Nall
30 points

What would you say is the biggest friction point in hiring good sales people that can sell well?

Sales Hiring Human Resources Selling

asked Feb 24 '14 at 20:33

Shaina Mc Cullough
10 points

When your startup begins to grow, what things should you start to delegate? And what things should I continue to do / monitor myself? We make mobile apps and some of them are starting to get a...

Hiring Growth Startups

asked Feb 21 '14 at 01:03

Steven Cox
11 points

Is it required by the California EDD to hire people as W2 employees for this case or could I just employ them as contractors? I wonder how companies like TaskRabbit and Uber are able to employ...

Hiring Legal California

asked Feb 20 '14 at 17:01

Karen Higgins
1 point

What are some unique ways to attract and hire talented people? I have been trying for several weeks to find a good designer to hire (either onsite or remotely). I have tried posting ads, and even...

Hiring

asked Feb 17 '14 at 13:24

Chrissie Gray
1,107 points

I came across an article about a company (Buffer) that made salaries of all employees public in order to be more transparent. What are the benefits of doing that?

Hiring Salary

asked Feb 17 '14 at 11:13

Marlon Wheeler
11 points

I would like to convince a talented engineer to come join my startup as employee #2 (there are just three of us at the moment). The company he currently works at is the large gorilla competitor of...

Hiring Poaching

asked Feb 13 '14 at 16:23

Jason
11 points

What kind of answer would you give and conversely what kind of answer are you looking for as an employer?

Hiring

asked Feb 6 '14 at 03:15

User30035
16 points

IT used to be said that half of the money you spent on advertising was wasted - but you couldn't tell which half (bonus points to anyone who know who originated that). Online marketing is...

Hiring Inbound Marketing Online Internet Marketing

asked Jan 22 '10 at 08:00

Puk
81 points

We are a 4 year old startup and are facing few issues (not yet major) with regards to attrition. We have been of the opinion that if we keep paying the employees as per the market standards and...

Hiring Employees Salary

asked Oct 8 '13 at 15:29

Nitin Srivastava
171 points

I have a new startup and need some additional Java programmers. The problem is: the majority of applicants have just gotten completely stuck and given up when presented with an extremely simple...

Hiring Development

asked Sep 17 '13 at 19:38

Jeremy List
46 points

I'm going to be working for a startup that is prefunding. They have received a grant for housing and a bit more. I was wondering what I should negotiate in terms of salary and equity. I don't want...

Getting Started Hiring Equity Compensation

asked Aug 25 '13 at 08:43

Sean Fisher
108 points

We're in the process of hiring our first employee and trying to figure out logistics given that we're making the employment offer in parallel with our seed funding. All of our current funding up to...

Hiring Equity Venture Capital Stock Options Convertible Note

asked Jul 6 '13 at 11:07

User26911
6 points

If you are hiring the second/third employee for a Web based SaaS company, then at which point of interview process you expect that candidate tries the product? Immediately? Before phone interview?...

Hiring Interviews

asked Jul 1 '13 at 14:40

User84686
139 points

We are in process to start a new consulting business on B2C model and would like to hire new resources with ample domain expertise and ability to add value to our organisation at director/head...

Hiring Startup Costs

asked May 15 '13 at 02:30

Nick
8 points

My startup needs more software engineers, but I'm not sure how I should advertise this opportunity. Most job offerings promise working on a project for an International Company, and therefore a...

Hiring Job Offer

asked Jun 1 '13 at 03:03

Jani Kovacs
75 points

yes, I have a couple of them that I do not want to give up any. Supposing they all got very positive feedback from very initial surveys, I would like to request your views on the possibility of...

Funding Founder Hiring Growth Product Launch

asked Apr 27 '13 at 01:07

Menesa
6 points

Having been involved in startups that failed, startups that turned into profitable but un-traded companies and startups that straight-out conned employees out of their share - I tend to regard them...

Hiring Equity

asked Jan 14 '13 at 10:37

Mgb
101 points