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Before getting upset about this, make sure you read what the author says (in an update) near the end: I specially carved out “young people” from my argument.
by ewjordan 16y ago
Before getting upset about this, make sure you read what the author says (in an update) near the end:
I specially carved out “young people” from my argument. Most young people are infinitely mobile. Also, I need to carve out mid-level developers. They tend to be fairly mobile. Finally, I should carve out international people. I talk about that in the comments.
So that leaves senior execs: Directors, VP, CEO types. This is the group I’m mostly talking about.
...in other words, this article is specifically targeted at well under 1% of the viewership of HN (I suspect we have many aspiring "CEO types" here, but mostly they are building up companies from scratch, not attempting to get inserted into them once they're up and running), and explicitly excludes the rest of us from this advice.
- _delirium 16y agoIt seems even for those, it must be a particular range of company types and sizes? Large companies, from what I can tell, pay almost no attention to location in hiring execs, and it's common for high-level execs to jump from company to company in different cities (say, to pick an example in the news lately, Carly Fiorina being hired as CEO of Palo-Alto-based HP, when she was living in New Jersey at the time).
- matwood 16y agoThis has been my experience also. I have a friend who is a SVP at a very large company. She lives in one state while managing offices in 6 other states and 3 other countries. This means she is either working out of her house or traveling to the various offices. The only real requirement (and mainly to keep her sanity) is to live near a city with a major airport.