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> Real talent doesn't just exist everywhere you go. Colleges outside cities, like the one I went to, are brimming with compsci students that are then forced to
by jimmaswell 9y ago
> Real talent doesn't just exist everywhere you go.
Colleges outside cities, like the one I went to, are brimming with compsci students that are then forced to move when they graduate, like I was. I'm sure if companies set up locations in such areas, they'd be able to tap into a decent amount of people like me who'd take a moderate pay cut to be able to live and work in a less dense region - not just the graduates I mentioned, but people who'd moved away from their home town and now could move back, or at least to somewhere more resembling it.
- pdimitar 9y agoI don't disagree but it seems to be a bit like the chicken and the egg problem: companies would love to tap on that talent but most business developers want hard evidence that the investment will repay itself, and for that to happen somebody has to actually try. It becomes a mutual deadlock. Furthermore, emphasizing on hiring graduates isn't a very sustainable strategy; many startups prey on the naivete and energy of young people and their hiring strategy usually revolves around draining a wave of young people of their creativity and energy, fire them when they realize what's going and then hire the next wave of naive and energetic youngsters. Many companies do that, not only startups. But for that model to work they need a big hiring pool. Not sure if rural-like areas have the volume of candidates for that hiring model to be sustainable.