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The biggest blocker is talent. Who’s going to join the French Government’s Google at 1/3 the pay with no sushi in the cafeteria?
by spoonjim 5y ago
The biggest blocker is talent. Who’s going to join the French Government’s Google at 1/3 the pay with no sushi in the cafeteria?
- speedgoose 5y agoThere is plenty of extremely talented people who do not work for Google or any random unicorn in California. Some people prefer to stay where they currently live. And you are not going to make many Frenchmen move continent for an American cafeteria menu.
- spoonjim 5y agoThere are some extremely talented French people but why would they work for the French government instead of remotely for... whoever they want? Unless they don’t speak English.
- speedgoose 5y agoWorking for the government can be more meaningful than selling to companies available human brain time for example. Also, working remotely is not for everyone or possible in every company.
- spoonjim 5y agoI can understand government work being meaningful if you’re doing something that can’t be done in the private sector like setting policy, regulatory compliance, working on health or climate change etc, but why would it be meaningful to help the French government build a shitty Google clone, to the tune of a 2/3 pay cut?
- speedgoose 5y agoIt could be so many reasons. Perhaps to actually build a search engine. I doubt anyone is building Google Search from scratch anymore at Google. And also it's not like you work for the French government, the French government is funding your company to support innovation. Most governments do that, by giving money or allowing tax optimization.
- ClumsyPilot 5y ago"pay with no sushi in the cafeteria?" Look you mock french for many things, but food is not one of them