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> I'd much, much, much rather have one proficient, in my timezone developer at 200k. Yes, but do you think you'll get proficient developers on the west coast f
by senko 5y ago
> I'd much, much, much rather have one proficient, in my timezone developer at 200k.
Yes, but do you think you'll get proficient developers on the west coast for just 200k, when unicorn startups and FAANGs pay at least twice that for great people?
For the fully loaded cost of one really good developer in the Bay Area (400k) you can get four equally good developers anywhere in Europe (I'm not even talking Eastern Europe here), who will happily shuffle their schedule to accomodate a few evening zoom calls or reply to a few mails.
The talent pool in this industry is global, and it's extremely hot everywhere, but ignoring purchasing power parity is just self-deception.
- rsanek 5y ago> For the fully loaded cost of one really good developer in the Bay Area (400k) you can get four equally good developers anywhere in Europe I think the 'equally good' is the part that I am really unsure of. From personal experience, the difference in competence of my coworkers when I moved from a medium-sized US city to the Bay Area was massive, and I had been working at one of the better/well-respected employers in my old geography. There's also some research I've seen that supports this on a global level -- see eg https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1814646116 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1814646116