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Hiring three people at $40k/yr each at the beginning is safer than hiring one experienced person at $120k/yr. Maybe one or two of the three don't pan out but, a
by _e 9y ago
Hiring three people at $40k/yr each at the beginning is safer than hiring one experienced person at $120k/yr. Maybe one or two of the three don't pan out but, at least, you didn't invest all your time into one person who might ultimately be the wrong fit.
- cylinder 9y agoWish more companies understood and practiced that.
- handbanana 9y agoFrom my experience, smaller private companies do. They don't have the prestige/money etc to attract top talent
- jaequery 9y agoon the contrary, if you find the right experienced developer, he/she will run circles around 5 or even 10 jr developers.
- flavio81 9y agoAgree. My experience is that an experienced (7-10 years experience) developer can do 8x the throughput of a junior developer.
- busterarm 9y agoI don't really use years experience as a metric. We hired a guy with 7 years experience to be our Lead Frontend dev and he basically built nothing usable for 4 months before we fired him. He made twice as much as me but my title was still Jr at the time. He didn't add a single piece of infrastructure to make his workload easier. My boss and I threw out all of his work, split it up and got it done in a month. 7 years of experience can very easily end up being 7 years of 1st year experience. I want to see some kind of scale in their responsibilities/accomplishments. There are some junior-experience people out there with the potential to get a lot done right now.
- _e 9y agoI stand corrected. Reflecting on my own experience you are absolutely right.
- busterarm 9y agoOnly do this if you're comfortable doubling someone's salary quickly after they prove themselves. Most companies aren't. I took a low offer and had to bust my ass and show up a few $120k/yr bad apples that we hired to get my salary raised to an appropriate level and that still took about 18 months over 3 raises. It would have been easier if I'd left and gone somewhere else and for most other people it will be too.