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Good luck in a competitive field like tech. Companies might not advertise salary ranges at a few big tech companies, but the vast majority of recruiters tell y

Good luck in a competitive field like tech. Companies might not advertise salary ranges at a few big tech companies, but the vast majority of recruiters tell you the salary range as soon as you talk to them (or you name your price and they say "that will work"). I already totally ignore the bottom 75% of salaries. The problem tech companies have is that many of them can be disrupted by a few motivated individuals, and there are always new opportunities for them. If you pay enough, you benefit from them. If you don't, somebody else does, or worse, they become new competition.

Clubber 5y ago
>The problem tech companies have is that many of them can be disrupted by a few motivated individuals I'm convinced a primary motivation for hiring in mega-tech companies is to keep people from making startups to dethrone them. You can't legally compete with Google, etc if you've signed a non-compete.
- mywittyname 5y ago
  Non-competes are unenforceable in a lot of places. And even if they weren't, the time scales for a startup to evolve into a serious market mover is longer than most non-compete contracts last anyway. A founder of a now-popular startup worked for Google eight years ago, so what? Let's say Google remembers and decides to pursue action. They'd spend another 3-4 years suing a person who has a mountain of plausible deniability to hide behind. And for what? There's no real gain to Google for this.
  - pseudalopex 5y ago
    The point is they go to and stay at Google instead of starting their own company.
- Mauricebranagh 5y ago
  You can once you leave - just don't take the piss like the self driving car idiot did.
- someguydave 5y ago
  more like they bribe potentially competent founders with a high salary and “perks”, which effectively raises the opportunity cost of making a competing startup. in this hypothesis most people working for google are actually not needed, but employed there primarily to waste their time

Clubber 5y ago

>The problem tech companies have is that many of them can be disrupted by a few motivated individuals I'm convinced a primary motivation for hiring in mega-tech companies is to keep people from making startups to dethrone them. You can't legally compete with Google, etc if you've signed a non-compete.

mywittyname 5y ago
Non-competes are unenforceable in a lot of places. And even if they weren't, the time scales for a startup to evolve into a serious market mover is longer than most non-compete contracts last anyway. A founder of a now-popular startup worked for Google eight years ago, so what? Let's say Google remembers and decides to pursue action. They'd spend another 3-4 years suing a person who has a mountain of plausible deniability to hide behind. And for what? There's no real gain to Google for this.
- pseudalopex 5y ago
  The point is they go to and stay at Google instead of starting their own company.
Mauricebranagh 5y ago
You can once you leave - just don't take the piss like the self driving car idiot did.
someguydave 5y ago
more like they bribe potentially competent founders with a high salary and “perks”, which effectively raises the opportunity cost of making a competing startup. in this hypothesis most people working for google are actually not needed, but employed there primarily to waste their time