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That’s not how it works. Engineers are not really commodities. The right engineer can really push your business forward and become a powerful asset. The wrong
by deadbabe 2y ago
That’s not how it works.
Engineers are not really commodities. The right engineer can really push your business forward and become a powerful asset. The wrong one can set you back years while your competitors surpass you. As long as there’s companies out there who want the best, the best will command higher salaries.
If you manage to hire a great engineer for a cheap price, inevitably they will have no loyalty and leave your company for a higher offer. Thus losing you money in the long term and harming your business. A remote worker can do this easily.
If you want cheap, the unethical thing to do is hire local talent that doesn’t enjoy remote work and can’t move easily. You entrap them into the job and pay them less.
- seadan83 2y agoGood points. To go further, the analogy I give is it is like hiring Stephen king vs a mediocre writer. The latter can get some interesting articles written, but the former will spawn book series, spinoffs, movies. Which is to say, I think there is a non linear effect to product quality provided by engineers who build the exact right thing and build it well. (For exact right thing, to illustrate, there are 1000s of requirements in a software system, perhaps more. Meanwhile there might be 100s of JIRA items. Meaning, there is a magnitude order gap between specified requirements and the rest. All requirements need to be coded up whether you know about them or not. The pro engineer will bridge this gap, the mediocre engineer will NPE instead)