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The sad, true reason why they don’t is that government programmer jobs will pay 1/2 - 1/3 what a private sector job will pay in the DMV (DC, MD, VA). And the ir
by patentatt 6y ago
The sad, true reason why they don’t is that government programmer jobs will pay 1/2 - 1/3 what a private sector job will pay in the DMV (DC, MD, VA). And the ironic part is that the reason private sector pay is so high is largely attributable to these big federal contracts being handed out. But as things are, the federal government cannot hire enough qualified people in the location (by DC) that they want to.