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Big tech is struggling to hire in a situation of its own making, by making the interview process so awful, and not caring about retention.
by ikiris 5y ago
Big tech is struggling to hire in a situation of its own making, by making the interview process so awful, and not caring about retention.
- random314 5y agoMaybe. But my point is that the fat pay packages are not because big tech has a lot of money. Rather, they are running out of supply for the kind of engineers they would like to hire. It's a demand supply thing. If big tech found it easy to hire, they would pay half of what they do now. Their primary expense is salary for software engineers.
- jbay808 5y agoIt's also because big tech has a lot of money. Many other companies can't afford to pay those salaries, and they would if they could.
- ghaff 5y agoI wouldn't lay retention entirely at the feet of big tech. Yes, there is changing jobs to get a bigger pay bump than staying but that's been true to greater or lesser degrees in a lot of places for a very long time. But what's also been true for a very long time is that, outside of some of the older larger companies, Silicon Valley has normed job tenures for a lot of people that would seem ludicrously short most other places and would, in fact, possibly make those people unhireable.