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If you pay a million dollars a year in salary, you'll have all the perl engineers you want. If you pay "market rate", you'll have some good engineers and some
by humanrebar 3y ago
If you pay a million dollars a year in salary, you'll have all the perl engineers you want.
If you pay "market rate", you'll have some good engineers and some desperate engineers, with the ratio slowly trending in the negative direction over time.
Point is, that's definitely a solvable problem, but only if you watch out for hard-to-quantify externalities.
Anyway, if the salaries have to keep going up to keep high quality engineers, the economics of rewriting and/or deleting legacy code start being a lot more straightforward.
- naikrovek 3y agoI agree. there is rarely (if ever) a shortage of talent. there is (almost) always a shortage of desire to acquire said talent. like most things, it's a money problem.