Curious... if I'm still in the "triage" bucket after 6 weeks should I assume the ship has sailed? I was really hoping to hear back one way or the other!

No, you will hear back. We're trying really hard to keep to the 6 weeks thing but sometimes we don't succeed.

I would think that startups would want to bias for people that can make good decisions quickly, within a short decision time. Perhaps hardware startups want more conservative employees?

Also in my experience, a fabulous candidate is sometimes only available for a very short time window (they either have become available due to unforeseen circumstances, or they are snapped up by a faster mover).

Is six weeks fast in your opinion?

In general: no, we'd love for things to be faster than six weeks. We just get a tremendous amount of applicants, and we have a lot of work to do. So the queue gets backed up. Hiring is hard.

Not insinuating that I'm a "fabulous" candidate (also totally possible that I am!), but I've been experiencing the opposite. The quickest offers I've received have had the most red flags.

The places I'd like to work seem to move slower and require more preparation. For instance Oxide has applicants put together a lot of written work and another company has a seemingly easy take-home project but which requires unfamiliar (to me) setup that I haven't had time to tackle. Then there are the faang-style interviews with loops scheduled perhaps weeks in the future.

I may send another round of applications soon, but I'm going to be more selective so I can manage the process better.

Please get back to them today, this is a prompt or cue to rescue this one from falling through the cracks. You never know...

Thank you, that does help. I thankfully have some flexibility in my search… and I promise the other replies aren’t alt accounts!

They got back to me after about 5.5 weeks (it was a no, but nicely worded). I think they are just really busy.

All your positions seem to be US-based, though. Or am I missing something?

All the positions on the site currently are remote friendly. I work for Oxide remotely from the UK – you just need a reasonable overlap with PT, I overlap four hours most days.

I'm curious how that works with the one-salary policy.

Everyone is paid the same, regardless of location.

I won't claim to know how salaries work in the US, but from what I know in some other countries, there is an employer overhead to salary, so for a salary of x, the employer is actually lining up x times k, with k larger than 1. However, if you're not in the US, you're either an independent contractor or an employee in a GEO or something of the sort.

In the first case, you would bill something and get a salary out of it. If you bill x, a) your income is in dollars rather than local currency, which from experience is not great, b) you cost less to the company than US employees who cost x times k, c) you have to pay your own overhead before making it a salary. So if you bill x, your salary is less than x, and you still have to pay taxes on that salary.

If GEO or other similar arrangement, you're usually paid in local currency, presumably an amount corresponding to x at a given date, and that has extra overhead for the employer different from what a normal employee would cost.

Either way, "everyone is paid the same, regardless of location" doesn't clarify much. Thus my original question.

Sure, in that case – as I understand it is everyone's pre-tax salary is the same, so your take home pay obviously depends on where you're a resident.

Currently we are using a remote hiring platform with local legal entities, so you'll get paid in local currency and receive local benefits. I'm based in the UK, I don't have the overhead of medical insurance, but the platform itself has costs and I'm not sure how much the costs of a UK employee compare to other countries.

But, we don't have many international employees, so the setup might change in the future or depending on the individual. When I first started, I briefly worked part-time as an independent contractor.