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That's not how markets typically work. There are million dollar jobs in software, we are just not good enough to get them but some people are. If congress' sala

by Tenoke 5y ago

That's not how markets typically work. There are million dollar jobs in software, we are just not good enough to get them but some people are. If congress' salaries were higher more of those people who currently have better paid opportunities would compete with them rather than having the same quality people but just better paid.

Nursie 5y ago
> There are million dollar jobs in software, we are just not good enough to ... Or we didn't hear about them, or the candidate was chosen via networking rather than advertising. There are a million reasons that this is not a perfect market. My experience in fintech has taught me that people working for more money are not necessarily any better at their jobs, in fact a lot of them are worse, they just happen to know the right people.
- fshbbdssbbgdd 5y ago
  I’m sure some million dollar software jobs get given out to connected idiots, but I don’t think it’s most of them. When I’ve worked with those kinds of people (high level engineers at top companies), they tend to be very skilled.
- Tenoke 5y ago
  It's not a perfect correlation but it's certainly easier to find better candidates if you can offer them more than they'd get elsewhere.
  - Nursie 5y ago
    > It's not a perfect correlation but it's certainly easier to find better candidates if you can offer them more Ah, but that wasn't the claim - the claim was that people who get the $200k jobs are not good enough to get the $1m jobs. My counter-claim is that the people who are actually in the higher paying jobs are not always better. You may be able to attract better people by offering more, but that's not necessarily relevant to the hiring processes that result in the people who have those $1m jobs getting to where they are. I've seen flat-out useless sycophants holding on to high paid roles because of basically office politics and industry connections.

by Tenoke 5y ago

Nursie 5y ago

> There are million dollar jobs in software, we are just not good enough to ... Or we didn't hear about them, or the candidate was chosen via networking rather than advertising. There are a million reasons that this is not a perfect market. My experience in fintech has taught me that people working for more money are not necessarily any better at their jobs, in fact a lot of them are worse, they just happen to know the right people.

fshbbdssbbgdd 5y ago
I’m sure some million dollar software jobs get given out to connected idiots, but I don’t think it’s most of them. When I’ve worked with those kinds of people (high level engineers at top companies), they tend to be very skilled.
Tenoke 5y ago
It's not a perfect correlation but it's certainly easier to find better candidates if you can offer them more than they'd get elsewhere.
- Nursie 5y ago
  > It's not a perfect correlation but it's certainly easier to find better candidates if you can offer them more Ah, but that wasn't the claim - the claim was that people who get the $200k jobs are not good enough to get the $1m jobs. My counter-claim is that the people who are actually in the higher paying jobs are not always better. You may be able to attract better people by offering more, but that's not necessarily relevant to the hiring processes that result in the people who have those $1m jobs getting to where they are. I've seen flat-out useless sycophants holding on to high paid roles because of basically office politics and industry connections.