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Thanks for putting this into words. People want a reason to log on, a reason to show up to work. I wrote a blog post on Monday about a relatively old and not-h
by muglug 6y ago
Thanks for putting this into words. People want a reason to log on, a reason to show up to work.
I wrote a blog post on Monday about a relatively old and not-hot language. The post nevertheless trended on Medium and received 50k views. A lot of the feedback was from people who were just happy to see someone senior say something positive about the not-hot language.
Anyway, working with The New Hotness also gives people something to put on their resumé: “I built system X on top of The New Hotness. Nobody had built such a system before for The New Hotness”.
- ab8 6y agoIs being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars plus stocks and bonuses not enough of a reason to show up at work?
- randmeerkat 6y agoYou would think so, but as it turns out, it’s not. First world problems^2.
- fractionalhare 6y agoNot when that becomes table stakes, no. If you have five different companies offering you that kind of money, eventually you'll start thinking about more than just the money.
- kortilla 6y agoWell the funny thing is that once you crack FAANG interviews you can usually get offers from multiple of them and then money no longer becomes the decision factor. The choice becomes, “work on X and make $400k or work on Y and make $400k”. You bet the tie breaker often ends up being the prospects for working on cool shit.
- jlokier 6y agoI suspect the majority of readers are being paid less than $100k with no stock or bonuses, and correctly intuit that new-hotness things on their résumé will help them climb the salary ladder towards that magic $100k threshold.