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What is more rewarding? 1. Relocating to an obscure town in Texas to work intensely with ambitious engineers on hard space exploration technology. 2. Building
by davidhunter 4y ago
What is more rewarding?
1. Relocating to an obscure town in Texas to work intensely with ambitious engineers on hard space exploration technology.
2. Building a truly breakthrough software system (eg metaverse/gaming/crypto) with ambitious engineers in a fully distributed company?
I find it hard to see how a company doing (1) would lose against a competitor doing (1) in a distributed fashion. I also find it hard to see how a company doing (2) would lose against a competitor doing (2) in an onprem fashion.
- bart_spoon 4y agoYes, but you are comparing apples to oranges. The comparison is: 1. Relocating to (city) to work in person with ambitious engineers on X. 2. Living where you choose to work remotely with ambitious engineers on X. When there is a choice, it seems workers generally greatly prefer 2. If your labor market is inelastic, you might be fine. If it's elastic, it seems like on-prem will definitely lose out to remote in terms of the labor pool.