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SHOW HN2015
582points
247comments
#15of 2,565 in 2015
Top 1%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
24 positive, 67 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 32 critical, out of 127 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Execution: 0 for, 19 againstIdea: 11 for, 5 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 5 againstDesign: 2 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, fast and useful interface
From 3 comments
It's a really clean implementation. However, it took me a while to understand what the website was all about (wasn't sure what LCAs are, etc.) One improvement could be making the…
tixocloud on HNThis site is nicely done and very clean. I used to get similar information from myvisajobs.com before. Well done :)
srameshc on HNGreat work. Impressive little tool.
hlake on HN
Useful for salary negotiation
From 3 comments
Very cool site! I found similar data a while back, but nowhere near this organized/pretty to look at. It helped me make the decision of NOT taking a job that I had a hunch was a…
theflork on HNThe salary information is potentially very useful in negotiations ..
pjc50 on HNThe USCIS publishes this data in an excel sheet format. You can find the raw data here http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm . I made use of this data to…
titomc on HN
Objections
Salaries reflect base pay at filing time, not bonuses or raises
From 3 comments
I would like to sound a caution, if you are using this data for any kind of salary negotiation. - LCA for a candidate is filed only once per company as long as he is in the same…
jamram82 on HNH1B here. Two small caveats with these data sets. 1. They may be incomplete. My position (2010) does not show up at all here, though it does on one of the other similar salary…
parennoob on HNAre we overrunning the server? Seems like it's gotten slow. At first indication the #s seem pretty accurate for where I've worked, though they only capture base salary. (No…
mathattack on HN
Duplicate and misspelled company names clutter results
From 3 comments
You need to dedupe the companies better. I just searched for "LinkedIn", and found several matches: ``` 1 linkedin, ltd. 2 linkedin, inc. 3 linkedin, corp. 4 linkedin ltd, inc. 5…
ajays on HNSo many ways to misspell "microsoft"!
btbuildem on HNSearch for "Amazon" gives me 87 different companies
Nemant on HN
Privacy concerns about publishing identifiable worker pay
From 3 comments
For all the H-1B is "cheap labor complains" the fact that this information is public is horrible. Its a very asymetric relationship with your colleagues. If this were really…
conanbatt on HNEven though this is anonymous, at big companies like Apple, you can see executive salaries with specific enough job titles that it's easy with a little LinkedIn sleuthing to know…
gdilla on HNWow, immigrants have no privacy in this country. Imagine, if US citizen salaries were made public like this. How would that make you feel?
oimaz on HN
Requests
API access
From 2 comments
It's a really clean implementation. However, it took me a while to understand what the website was all about (wasn't sure what LCAs are, etc.) One improvement could be making the…
tixocloud on HNDefinitively. I'm going to provide an API pretty soon. Too bad it wont be ready for this week end.
negrit on HN
Search by job title across companies
From 2 comments
It would be useful to search across companies for a job title
berkay on HNcan you add functionality to search by job title other than as a filter? great tool though!
paxtonab on HN
Search by city or location
From 2 comments
Thanks for this! I'm currently looking at opportunities and this would help immensely during negotiations. Would it be possible to search for role + location instead of company…
myth_buster on HNI would love to be able to query the whole dataset at once, instead of company by company. For example, I'd like to see everything in $city, and then be able to sort that by…
pdx on HN
Bulk data dump
From 1 comment
Would love to have a dump of the data: Every time people scrape these data, they have to clean it again and again.
Buetol on HN
Questions
Do salary figures include bonus or stock?
From 2 comments
Do these numbers include bonus/stock or is it just base?
ckamin5 on HNDoes anyone know how accurate employers are legally required to be with these? Is this just base salary, or are they allowed to include cash bonuses, stock bonuses, etc?
bkjelden on HN
Which public records were used?
From 1 comment
May I ask which public records did you use? Thanks, this looks awesome!
wodzu on HN
Alternatives named
dolstats.com
From 2 comments
Nicely done. This is useful to gauge salary levels in your current company and also what companies in similar domain are paying in the area. There is another website…
bankim on HNBe aware this shows the salary as it was when the visa was applied for; which is often many months before the visa (end supposedly, the job) begins. I found myself on here (the…
stickydink on HN
visadoor.com
From 2 comments
Try http://visadoor.com You can also search Green Card PERMs.
visadoor on HNShameless plugin. Also checkout http://visadoor.com, which provides the same information and more.
visadoor on HN
salar.ly
From 1 comment
Their data hadn't been updated in a while, but http://www.salar.ly/ has that functionality
Eridrus on HN
myvisajobs.com
From 1 comment
This site is nicely done and very clean. I used to get similar information from myvisajobs.com before. Well done :)
srameshc on HN