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10% above the rest of the state to move to the middle of nowhere obviously wasn't enough. When a company says they can't find anyone to hire, what they really m
by learc83 7y ago
10% above the rest of the state to move to the middle of nowhere obviously wasn't enough. When a company says they can't find anyone to hire, what they really mean most of the time is "we can't find anyone to hire for the mostly arbitrary price we want to hire them at."
My guess is the company is making far more off of those employees than the labor cost, so if you didn't have access to H-1B employees you would have kept increasing the salary 20%, 30%, 50% until you found someone.
- hobs 7y agoYeah, and sharepoint administration totally needs butts in the seats to implement.
- xnyan 7y agoI can't tell you how many times I've heard an org say that did a market analysis and the offered wage is "competitive" so clearly it's a labor supply issue and not possible that they are not offering enough compensation. Competitive does not mean "we're offering a little more than the minimum salary we saw on glassdoor," but often that's exactly how they determined it.
- ApolloFortyNine 7y ago>10% above the rest of the state to move to the middle of nowhere obviously wasn't enough. When a company says they can't find anyone to hire, what they really mean most of the time is "we can't find anyone to hire for the mostly arbitrary price we want to hire them at." If my salary would be doubled tomorrow, there's nowhere in the continental United States I wouldn't move to. Given 100mbps+ internet of course, but that does cover anywhere that could double a software engineer's salary. If you're a software company without good internet, it might be time to move. A 10% raise isn't worth leaving for in my opinion, if you are happy with your job. Between moving and simply leaving a work environment where you understand the expectations, 10% doesn't cut it.