Creator here. Regular job boards don't provide these lucrative opportunities. I understand that jobs with incredibly high compensation (university president, CEO, hedge fund manager, etc) are usually filled internally or from private networks. I put this together in a couple hours to test that idea.
I am nowhere near the position in my career to comment from personal experience but I imagine that if you are making that kind of money you didn't apply on Indeed. I picked the million dollar number for shock value above any market research.
An executive search firm that's able to find candidates who would be suitable for jobs that pay $1mm+ in total comp is going to be using the network of people who they already know in order to find those candidates. At that level of comp you're relying on relationships and recommendations in order to find candidates (along side, most likely, some judicious use of LinkedIn) rather than any form of job board.
I don't think you could write a scraper to find the jobs in a couple hours and I don't think it would take a couple hours to reach out to these companies for a partnership. So how do you find the jobs?
I don't think any jobs pay salary of $1m+, they typically have a high base of $600k for university presidents or CEOs, then they are given enormous yearly bonuses to push the figure over $1m.
I imagine you're right, that's why I made sure to specify on the site that "Expected total compensation includes salary, equity, benefits, and bonuses."
I know this guy in real life. He is full of ideas like this, where there is only a vague description of what it actually is or does, and no tech behind it. In other words, most ideas are worth very little, but his are worth the least.
Hi, sorry you feel that way. Thanks for making an account to let me know. If you'd like to give me more detail about how I could put more execution behind my ideas, feel free to drop me an email. If you want to keep it anonymous I totally understand.
For those listening, I have no idea if this person actually knows me in real life, as the account does not have any identifying information.
That's hilarious. This guy actually thinks companies that pay $1m are going to use his website which is under his personal website to hire people and then pay him.
This seems like a weird theme for a job board. You're lumping in high-level execs at all kinds of different companies with very high-level engineers and finance folks and anybody else who makes this kind of comp. If an engineer of that caliber is looking for a job, why would they come here instead of working with a dedicated headhunter? Similarly, why would, say, P&G post an SVP-level job here rather than working with headhunters who have a network of the type of people who can fill that role?
I guess what I'm trying to say is it doesn't seem like there's enough in common with either the people posting jobs of this type or the people looking for them that you'll be able to get a critical mass of either.
What kind of research did you do with folks on either side of the marketplace to determine that this would be a viable idea?
It turns out I did not make it clear that this is a satirical website and not to be taken too seriously. I apologize for any confusion, and will be publishing something shortly about what I learned from the process. If for some reason I do find out about an offer that fits the published criteria, I will pass it along as promised, and other than distributing the aforementioned writeup will not use any of the contact information collected through the site.
The comment you made two hours ago, too, was satire?
"Creator here. Regular job boards don't provide these lucrative opportunities. I understand that jobs with incredibly high compensation (university president, CEO, hedge fund manager, etc) are usually filled internally or from private networks. I put this together in a couple hours to test that idea."
Yes, and I handled it badly. I started getting traffic and was really excited. I would take it down but I think the better thing to do is live with & learn from my mistake and trust everyone moves on.
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[ 0.26 ms ] story [ 63.3 ms ] threadI'm guessing you know this already, but there are also search firms that specialize in hiring executives.
An executive search firm that's able to find candidates who would be suitable for jobs that pay $1mm+ in total comp is going to be using the network of people who they already know in order to find those candidates. At that level of comp you're relying on relationships and recommendations in order to find candidates (along side, most likely, some judicious use of LinkedIn) rather than any form of job board.
Edit: I'm glad you like the idea. Definitely should not have extended the tone of taking the site seriously into the comments. My Mistake.
For those listening, I have no idea if this person actually knows me in real life, as the account does not have any identifying information.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I guess what I'm trying to say is it doesn't seem like there's enough in common with either the people posting jobs of this type or the people looking for them that you'll be able to get a critical mass of either.
What kind of research did you do with folks on either side of the marketplace to determine that this would be a viable idea?
It turns out I did not make it clear that this is a satirical website and not to be taken too seriously. I apologize for any confusion, and will be publishing something shortly about what I learned from the process. If for some reason I do find out about an offer that fits the published criteria, I will pass it along as promised, and other than distributing the aforementioned writeup will not use any of the contact information collected through the site.
"Creator here. Regular job boards don't provide these lucrative opportunities. I understand that jobs with incredibly high compensation (university president, CEO, hedge fund manager, etc) are usually filled internally or from private networks. I put this together in a couple hours to test that idea."