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But that is the reason why San Francisco has higher pays, there is a huge competition between employers. In practice what you propose is not to hire in expensiv
by afiori 7y ago
But that is the reason why San Francisco has higher pays, there is a huge competition between employers. In practice what you propose is not to hire in expensive places.
- hawkice 7y agoI mean, I strongly encourage all people who, when presented with the option of getting a very good deal on an expensive and valuable thing, to take it. In equilibrium, you'd expect someone's programming skillset not to massively drop in value because they moved slightly far away in essentially the same legal jurisdiction. Until we reach that equilibrium, there is money waiting to be collected by firms who hire American engineers to work remotely.
- afiori 7y agoIn my understanding when you move away from hot-spots like San Francisco it is not your skill that loses value, but you that lose power in asking for an higher salary. Also it is not that devs in SF are especially good; I would guess that the distribution of skill is power law (specifically the number of devs in the global n-th percentile as a function of the total number of devs in the hiring pool) and it might be argued that the competitions is counterbalancing any positive effect of that. In the end it is a position of which job market do you want to be in.
- ghaff 7y agoWhich is what many companies do in practice. Say there's a company that's not in the Bay Area and has some potentially remote openings. As a Bay Area resident, go in demanding a FAANG in-person salary and most of them will laugh at you unless you're someone very unique who they need.