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It's interesting how much the high-tech industry that made remote and distributed working possible is still bound to a locality. Outside Silicon Valley, and ou
by wladimir 16y ago
It's interesting how much the high-tech industry that made remote and distributed working possible is still bound to a locality.
Outside Silicon Valley, and outside the US, there is also a lot of talent, which would dream of earning even half of what a Silicon Valley developer does, but cannot move there for some reason.
Ample opportunity here for smart companies.
- robryan 16y agoDepends on the company and what they do but there is a lot of advantage to work at the same physical location at least some of the time. If this wasn't the case I think the market as a whole would have worked it out and you would see far less concentration to the one physical location.
- wladimir 16y agoThat could also be the case because the business world is slow to adapt to new paradigms. There are not many ingrained best practices yet for distributing development teams over the world. The market is moving in this way, but slowly. There is a certain threshold above which it just isn't worth to pay multiple times the salary just for someone that lives closer. It might also be that better collaboration tools need to be developed, or improved, to support this. Or that good tools exist but they are not well-known enough.
- nadam 16y agoYes. If anybody is interested: For example offering half of Sillicon Valley salary to developers I could find the brightest 10-20 programmers from my country. I am well connected amongst developers. (Hungary is a 10million people country.) Just give me a very hard 'test', I will give that or something similar to hundreds of developers, and choose the best 10. If you offer higher than market salary, money makes miracles.
- shalmanese 16y agoTopTal does this: http://www.toptal.com/ http://www.toptal.com/ . You should contact them if you're interested.
- nadam 16y agoThanks, I will contact them.