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There are many definitions out there, but I'm curious to hear your thoughts. Thanks!

Seashell (seashell.com) was founded in 2021 and raised its Series A last month.

The product: "Earn up to 10% interest on your cash. Compliance focused. No hidden fees. Get started in minutes."

The FAQ page explains how they earn such high yields: "We place your money into a diversified strategy, partially investing into safe haven assets like gold and partially investing into dollar-pegged digital assets that attract borrowers who are willing to pay higher interest fees. As a result, your money is generating reliably up to 10% interest, leaving you with more cash in your pocket."

This sounds like an investment product that is substantially downplaying the risks (placing money in non-digital assets like cyrpto) - a material misrepresentation of an interest-bearing account.

And does "compliance focused" mean they're actually compliant? Or are they following the Robinhood model of building up a treasure chest before regulators notice, in order to afford the legal costs and changes necessary to clean up their act (i.e. cost of doing business).

It doesn't pass my smell test, but I'd like to hear your thoughts.

Full Stack, Backend, Frontend, DevOps/SRE, Mobile, Android, iOS, Machine Learning, Data Engineers, or other?

Thanks!

There are numerous Remote software engineering job boards.

But there are engineers out there interested in returning to the office ASAP, at least a couple of days a week (whether because they're more productive there, miss the in-person interaction, prefer colleagues in the same time zone, etc).

Anyone familiar with job search resources for them?

Thanks!

It's happening more and more, but I would love a tracker covering smaller companies under the radar, not just the Google and JPMorgan headline announcements.

Thanks!

Throughout the pandemic, remote was basically analogous to "home." Now that much is reopening, where will telecommuters go when they want to get out of the house?

Pre-pandemic, usually coffee shops and co-working spaces accommodated this tiny segment of the workforce.

Now that there are so many more people working at least partially remote, how will this change the landscape? A boom in co-working spaces and coffee shops? New innovations to make space?

For those of you working remotely, where are you going/planning to go when away from your home office?

Thanks for the insights? .

During rough or uncertain economic times, risk tolerance declines in favor of job security.

How have the last few months affected your interest in joining a startup?

Thanks!

While I see it's common for startups to prefer hiring those with prior startup experience, what has your experience been with engineers from Big Tech (e.g. FANG)?

Do small startups need more on-site collaboration than established companies?

Are the legal/tax implications of hiring across different states or countries worth it?

How will this affect their ability to compete with established companies for talent?

Thanks!

Twitter, for example: why would they pay $200K for a software engineer in San Francisco, when they can pay $150K for the same talent in another city?

How will those living in high COL areas compete with that?

For those of you who have moved from a big tech company to a startup:

1. What was the biggest challenge in the transition?

2. How much was the % change in total compensation you accepted?

3. Glad you did it?

Thanks!

Thinking out loud here.

How about the government issuing wristbands to people declared recovered from COVID-19?

Perhaps the wristband would include 1) Name and 2) QR Code to cross-reference with a large doctors' database confirming their positive test and recovery.

My co-working space has remained open and I'm considering going for a brief break from cabin fever. Even before Coronavirus hit, there was no problem grabbing a desk 6+ feet from others. Since even fewer members are going these days, I feel it could be OK if I just simply wipe down the desk and wash my hands regularly.

What would you do? Thanks.

Whether you were on the hiring or candidate side, I'm curious to hear your thoughts/experiences.

Let's say the company uses Node, Angular, and MongoDB:

Candidate #1: Above average Senior-level Engineer with matching background in Node, Angular, MongoDB.

Candidate #1: Excellent Senior-level Engineer, but background is mainly in Ruby, React, and Postgres.

And please contribute any other of the countless permutations! Would it be a different situation for Python-to-Java (or vice versa)?

Thanks!

Which would you prefer:

1. Local job with reasonable commute.

2. Remote job with out-of-state company, requiring a monthly Monday-Friday office visit.

Compensation is the same and airfare/lodging covered for the monthly office trips. Thanks!