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At the end of the day, it's all about leverage. I'm not sure how the job market is in Philly, but one of the reasons this worked in SF (I imagine), has to due
by rubicon33 10y ago
At the end of the day, it's all about leverage.
I'm not sure how the job market is in Philly, but one of the reasons this worked in SF (I imagine), has to due with the leverage the employee has over their prospective employer.
In SF/bay salaries are quite high, and talent is hard to find.
It doesn't hurt that the engineer who I know that did this, was an incredible engineer.
That said, I still recognize it's probably not something that's going to work all the time. For every 10 companies you ask, 1 will agree.
- humanrebar 10y ago> In SF/bay salaries are quite high, and talent is hard to find. That's because they are high in absolute terms, but not high in relative terms. In other words, if the pay was actually high, talent wouldn't be hard to find.
- pmichaud 10y agoThat's assuming that there is a surplus of high level talent that would work if the pay were higher. I don't think this is true.
- humanrebar 10y agoIf the supply for talent is somewhat inelastic and smaller than we'd like, the price for talent should go up, no? Eventually, you'd attract talent from other regions and related industries (I can make 3 times more in computer science instead of meteorology, you say?). You'd also see more incentive to improve the productivity of the highly specialized, highly skilled talent. This would look like less patience for things that waste developers' time, like substandard tooling, unacceptable levels of technical debt, etc.