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there isn't easy enough access to talent when you need to scale up Isn't it harder/costlier to find talent in highly competitive SV than it is in Europe?
by ced 10y ago
there isn't easy enough access to talent when you need to scale up
Isn't it harder/costlier to find talent in highly competitive SV than it is in Europe?
- MyNameIsFred 10y agoThat's what I would figure, as well. My company moved to Seattle when we needed to expand and hire talent. Still a tech culture, but houses are still in the 6-digit range, and you don't have to pay $200k/year for a fresh graduate with a degree from CodeAcademy.
- hobo_mark 10y agoMaybe you mean a certificate, but they don't even give that.
- MyNameIsFred 10y agoIt was a (lousy) joke.
- baddox 10y agoSure, but in both places the labor prices are (roughly) market prices.
- eru 10y agoHow could they not be?
- mathattack 10y agoIt is hard, but when you're an "It" company in hypergrowth it's the only place to be. When you're 20 people, it's easier being in a small city and just finding the best talent available. It's much harder to scale like Google/Facebook/Yahoo elsewhere. (It's possible in Seattle/NY/Boston/Austin, just tougher at the hypergrowth moment)