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Salary disclosure on startup job posts is 1%, 31%, or 67% — depending on how you look

Salary disclosure on startup job posts is 1%, 31%, or 67% — depending on how you look

We measured salary transparency across 90,376 live ATS job listings three different ways and got three wildly different answers. The real number is ~67% — and the transparency laws barely moved it.

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  1. 1Seed Startups Post Staff Engineer Roles Almost as Often as Series C Companies
  2. 2Forward Deployed Engineer Is Now a Bigger Job Market Than Sales Engineer

Seed Startups Post Staff Engineer Roles Almost as Often as Series C Companies

Seed-stage startups put 'Staff' on 27% of their leveled software-engineer listings; Series C companies are at 38%. The maturity gradient is real but weak — at seed, the title is a bid, not an org-chart fact.

2 months ago

Forward Deployed Engineer Is Now a Bigger Job Market Than Sales Engineer

Palantir coined the Forward Deployed Engineer title; Databricks now out-posts them 90 to 68. With 638 active listings at 241 companies, FDE has overtaken Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, and Solutions Architect.

2 months ago

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