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Changing it way way? Worse or better?
by ionwake 5y ago
Changing it way way? Worse or better?
- golergka 5y agoFor those of us outside of the US who can now compete for the same salaries — certainly for the better. For companies who can now hire from a wider pool of talent, with lower salary expectations — for the better, too. For US software engineers — probably not so much. Basically, the same story that happened to US blue-collar workers when Kissinger opened China to international trade and put a billion of starving peasants on the path to modern economic prosperity: everybody but those who enjoyed geographic privilege before is bound to win.
- pc86 5y agoI don't think most US software engineers are going to fair any worse than anyone else, honestly. If you have one of these $300-400k TC jobs the HN folks act like grow on trees, you're unlikely to be replaced by someone responding to a RemoteOK job add because they're mostly hiring people local, and people with huge online followings/internet-famous dev types. If you make $115k for a bank and got your last 3 jobs from recruiters and LinkedIn, you're equally unlikely for different reasons. The middle area filled with $200k/yr consultants will probably hurt a bit, but I'm not sure they haven't been competing with that group already.
- ionwake 5y agoThanks for your reply can you explain this statement please ? >got your last 3 jobs from recruiters and LinkedIn, you're equally unlikely for different reasons.
- myko 5y agoI don't see this trend in the US at all. Most folks we're hiring now expect $20-30k more than they did pre-COVID. We've had multiple team members leave to make more money and ended up giving a blanket raise to the development staff to try to make sure we're paying market rates. This is in the midwest US but we're now recruiting nationally since everyone is remote.
- golergka 5y agoOh, I'm talking about 10-20 years.