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> what is the advantage of the European engineer that is worth paying >=10x as much? It is very simple - cost of insurance. It is much easier to persuade a wor
by varispeed 4y ago
> what is the advantage of the European engineer that is worth paying >=10x as much?
It is very simple - cost of insurance. It is much easier to persuade a worker making $300 a month to leak company secrets than someone making $20k a month.
Plus workers in such countries may be incentivised (or have no choice but to do it) to spy on behalf of their government.
If your company is doing something remotely serious, you can be almost certain someone you don't want will get hold of your IP.
- acchow 4y agoThis makes no sense. If you want to pay to keep secrecy, why not just raise their salary by 9x to keep them quiet?
- logifail 4y ago> If your company is doing something remotely serious [..] (Sorry I have to ask this) but what types of companies are you talking about? Uber? Netflix? Spotify? For those maybe, just maybe, the secret sauce isn't actually secret any more, it was simply cheap VC money subsidising all our rides/viewing/listening.[0][1][2][3] [0] https://slate.com/business/2022/05/uber-subsidy-lyft-cheap-rides.html https://slate.com/business/2022/05/uber-subsidy-lyft-cheap-r... [1] https://financialpost.com/investing/investing-pro/investors-have-subsidized-our-uber-rides-spotify-tunes-and-netflix-bingeing-but-maybe-not-for-much-longer https://financialpost.com/investing/investing-pro/investors-... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/technology/farewell-millennial-lifestyle-subsidy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/technology/farewell-mille... [3] https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-uber-ipo-lyft-fare-increase-20190511-story.html https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-uber-ip...