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I don't necessarily disagree, but fundamentally I think this will lead to "anyone who can find a higher-paying job will find a higher paying job." Part of what
by tombert 4y ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but fundamentally I think this will lead to "anyone who can find a higher-paying job will find a higher paying job."
Part of what's enticing about these "blue-chip" megatech corporations like Microsoft or Apple is that they pay good salaries. Most work at these companies is not interesting (at least it wasn't at Apple), but you stay because the pay is good.
If the pay is shit, I'll take interesting work at a startup, or I'll find a place that does pay well (like Wall Street).
- sokoloff 4y agoIf the pay was good before, it's at least 96% of good now.
- nineplay 4y agoA lot comes down to what life stage employees are in. Someone with fixed monthly costs and kids in school is not going to want to a) move and b) deal with the anxiety of working at a start up. Probably companies are banking on that.
- tombert 4y agoYeah, that's fair, though I still think that's going to selection-bias towards employees who can't really find work elsewhere. I don't know about Microsoft but certainly at Apple there were plenty of people who were pretty mediocre engineers...I certainly was the last 6-8 months I was there because I hated it so much and realized they probably wouldn't fire me.
- nineplay 4y agoMy cynical hot-take is that big companies don't need great engineers, they need engineers who are good enough to complete the tickets their given and move on to the next one. The great engineers I've known came up with innovative ideas that were briefly admired and then quickly squashed. A few good architects can make a difference, but the army of SWEs are just there to keep the roads rolling.
- therealdrag0 4y agoNor want to study leetcode and spend time stressing interviews just to get rejected cuz there was hundreds of other candidates etc.