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There are so many tech jobs aggressively hiring, if someone feels slighted in their compensation, they only need to respond to recruiters or hit up a few of the

• repo001 6y ago
  Yep pretty much this. And luckily this will definitely work because none of these companies have a history of making secret agreements not to poach each other's talent after making a 15% pay cut.
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• onion2k 6y ago
  813 is a very small number in an industry that employs millions of people. There are almost a million people in tech in the Bay Area alone (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/14/tech-employment-bay-area-reaches-record-highs-google-apple-facebook-adobe/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/14/...).
• PragmaticPulp 6y ago
  That’s true, but anecdotally it’s also the reason salaries are going down in the first place. As companies expand to remote-first, nationwide hiring they’re realizing that they don’t necessarily need to pay SV premiums to hire good talent. There are plenty of talented hires around the country that are underpaid relative to SV but were previously geographically locked out of these companies. In other words: You’re no longer competing against other SV people for these jobs. You’re competing against people across the country who would still be getting a significant raise if they worked for 2/3 of past SV comp.
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