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Top talent will. The trick is to be good enough to be top talent.
by HenryKissinger 6y ago
Top talent will. The trick is to be good enough to be top talent.
- m0zg 6y agoTop talent from Canada is less than one third the price of the US top talent though.
- 908B64B197 6y agoFrom Canada or in Canada? A lot of the "Top Talent" in Canada simply couldn't make it to the US due to stricter visa requirements.
- m0zg 6y agoThe difference between "in" and "from" is not material when you don't even have to show up to sit in a cubicle.
- 908B64B197 6y agoI meant that a lot of the top talent in Canada is already working in the US. There's a skill gap between top talent in the US and top talent in Canada.
- m0zg 6y agoWell, they may lose their jobs to folks still in Canada then. You can get a seasoned dev in Canada for less money than a fresh grad in San Francisco. If the company switches to be distributed a-la GitLab, there's no reason not to do it. The reason why offshoring nearly always failed in the past is because teams weren't fully distributed/remote. If a company re-tools around distributed, it can operate just fine as long as there aren't any "hallway conversations" remote workers don't have access to.
- 908B64B197 6y ago>The reason why offshoring nearly always failed in the past is because teams weren't fully distributed/remote That's an interesting theory. It doesn't match what I've observed where the offshore team almost always had a skill gap with the on-site team.
- m0zg 6y agoRemember that in this case it'd be "offshoring", not "offshore outsourcing". That is, the company would be able to maintain the hiring bar at that reduced cost.