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This doesn’t really make sense - if it were true a single company could pay many times what faang does to secure talent 10x+ better than a normal tech worker an
by soared 3y ago
This doesn’t really make sense - if it were true a single company could pay many times what faang does to secure talent 10x+ better than a normal tech worker and have unfettered success. It also means a 10x dev years ago would be.. 100x now?
It also implies some weird logic that if you were into tech before, you’re better than someone who was born 10 years later and is into tech now. And implications that if you’re not devoted to your employers industry your work output is meaningfully worse, which maybe is true but maybe not.
- verve_rat 3y agoYour first point assumes that it is easy to identify top tier talent during the hiring process and that tech employment is not a market for lemons [1]. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
- leetharris 3y agoApologies, I'm not sure I understand what you're saying so would love to hear more of your thoughts. > It also implies some weird logic that if you were into tech before, you’re better than someone who was born 10 years later and is into tech now. This was not what I was trying to say. The amount of people who work in tech is far, far higher now than it was 20 years ago. It just brought more "average" people in who don't really push the boundaries of what is possible. Lots of apps that move strings in and out of databases, very little real innovation going on from smart people.