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They’re not, but they are shy about defying their own regulations around pay scales. The real money in defense is in private contracting.
by Arubis 2y ago
They’re not, but they are shy about defying their own regulations around pay scales. The real money in defense is in private contracting.
- dgfitz 2y agoThis is accurate. Imagine if NSA paid FAANG people FAANG salaries how different the world might be.
- knowaveragejoe 2y agoThe NSA does pay FAANG people FAANG salaries. It's just through private contractors, many of which you've never heard of.
- dgfitz 2y agoMany of which you’ve never heard of. Have you? Is this just public information I didn’t see? Or are starting a conversation with an impossible premise? I also wouldn’t make assumptions.
- TechDebtDevin 2y agohttps://www.nsa.gov/business/programs/ https://www.nsa.gov/business/programs/
- knowaveragejoe 2y agoThat's the "royal you", not you individually. If you go looking around on linkedin or crunchbase, you'll find numerous 10-50 employee defense contractors. Having known a few individuals employed this way, I would rank them as smart, capable, highly technical and easily capable of working at FAANG. They're getting comparable compensation/benefits with far less stress, and probably work on more interesting problems than the average Googler.
- Onavo 2y agoSome of L3's subsidiaries definitely recruit from HN