@Martin, Quite! Although I've heard some reasoned discussion that it's more like 1996. Which means there is still a little time to lay up some profits while the money is out there.
This is an amazing time to work at a funded start-up. Good cash comp, interesting work, some upside in the form of options. Just make sure to save a chunk of your salary so when everything finally does implode you'll be able to ride out the down times. And there's an easy way to tell approximately when the good times will end. It will be about six months after your Grandmother sees an infomercial and puts retirement money into a special hedge fund selling derivatives that somehow avoid the sophisticated investor laws but that are backed by a secondary market in non-public stock of tech start ups. Once even your granny (and apologies and exclusions to anyone whose grandma actually *is* a sophisticated wall street trader) is investing in pre-IPO startup shares, it's time to tune up your Scala and Clojure skills and take a cushy finance or insurance job for about 6-8 years until the cycle starts again. Welcome back to 1996. And now to return to our regularly scheduled technical programming :) Best Wishes, Peter On May 26, 2011, at 12:25 AM, Martin Wawrusch wrote: > The whole funding scene is nuts right now, and that trickles down to ruby > developers (and wait for the need for coffeescript/node.js developers). It is > going to get worse though from a hiring perspective, with the IPOs coming up > and even more fresh money available. And yeah, it feels like 1999 again - one > hell of a year :P > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Peter Bell <[email protected]> wrote: > Not at $28/hr. :) > > But it certainly is outside of Toronto. I've been to 5 conferences in the > last two weeks and in every one, pretty much every deck seemed to end with a > "we're hiring" slide. And most of the positions I was hearing about were > safely north of $100k/yr. At least in the major US metro markets . . . > > Seriously, this is the best labor market I've seen for developers since 1999. > It's nuts. > > I'd still like to know what LivingSocial paid for Glenn and the gang at > InfoEther . . . > > Best Wishes, > Peter > > On May 26, 2011, at 12:10 AM, Alex Katebi wrote: > >> <517.gif>Hurray!!!<517.gif> The recession is finally over.<517.gif> >> >> >> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 1:02 PM, UTbibapp <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I sincerely hope that it is appropriate to post this on this mailing >> > list. 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