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I've run a smart consulting business for 16 years now. I've watched over the years as many I've worked with have gone to FAANG. There may be opportunity costs
by nhance 6y ago
I've run a smart consulting business for 16 years now. I've watched over the years as many I've worked with have gone to FAANG.
There may be opportunity costs involved, but there is no way FAANG can grab all of the top talent. Some of it is going to make its own way simply because they want to write their own rules.
- mywittyname 6y agoYou don't need to grab all of the top talent, just enough to keep them from coalescing into a threat. The few that slip by get acquir-hired in a few years.
- pxue 6y agoExtremely relevant for Canadian talent pools. Bleed to SF/Bay area is real.
- vmception 6y agoThe other side of this is how so many people starting or running companies still dont have a realistic view of what to pay engineers. They're pricing a budget out to rationalize an equity raise and are completely inept at what is necessary to get their highly specialized engineers. Sure there are a lot of engineers working at noncompetitive companies making 80-180k and lower outside of the bay area. But if you expect to spend less time on recruiting and less time on attritition for your skillset that only exists in the bay area or HFT firms, wake tf up!