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FAANG compensation range but no benefits and 100x the risk Make it $8m or $12m and FAANG employees can actually start to justify working on it seriously from a
by jobs_throwaway 3y ago
FAANG compensation range but no benefits and 100x the risk
Make it $8m or $12m and FAANG employees can actually start to justify working on it seriously from a money perspective
- varjag 3y agoMost of them are not good enough to make a dent in this task.
- bluGill 3y agoMost of the developers are. They might not have the right background and so it might take an extra year or two to get up to speed with the difficult areas of this project. However most developers I know have the "smarts" to switch to a different complex area and figure it out. Sure most of them are just doing standard CRUD apps that move a bit of data - but that is because that is what we need a lot of not because they can't do something else.
- jobs_throwaway 3y agoCertainly. But you only need a few that are good enough to make a huge difference
- varjag 3y agoProblem is determining which candidates who were preselected for cramming Leetcode for comp are actually any good. Can't see how going for handsomely paid tech folks is any better than enthusiasts from academia.
- jobs_throwaway 3y agoThat's what the contest is for. There's no screening other than by results