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1. In Boston, ITA Software pays a referral bonus of $4000. 2. Pittsburgh loses hackers because they prefer to live elsewhere. To fix this make the culture, nei
by shimon 16y ago
1. In Boston, ITA Software pays a referral bonus of $4000.
2. Pittsburgh loses hackers because they prefer to live elsewhere. To fix this make the culture, neighborhoods, or climate more attractive to hackers. (Easy to say, but hard to attempt and perhaps impossible to achieve.)
- nostrademons 16y ago$2k-$5k has been a typical referral bonus at places I've worked. I have friends in the financial industry that got up to a $15k referral bonus (and were correspondingly aggressive in trying to recruit me).
- georgecmu 16y ago1. In Pittsburgh, NREC pays a referral bonus of $5000. 2. And yet, Pittsburgh's has been consistently at the top of various "best places to live" lists for the past 5-10 years.
- mkramlich 16y agoI have an idea to help address number 2. If every startup/investor in Pittsburgh area would put just 1% of the cash they've raised into a single pool, governed by a special interest group/association, whose sole purpose was to make infrastructural & social investments in their city, make it more attractive, parks, cleaner, help open restaurants, clubs, etc. Arguably some entity like this already exists in Pittsburgh, but if not, create it.
- steveklabnik 16y agoI'd imagine Boston is a bit more expensive in general than the 'burgh, no? But still, yeah, I'm sure it's not 4x. > (Easy to say, but hard to attempt and perhaps impossible to achieve.) Absolutely. That's the hard part. ;)