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At Google, HR has dictated to our team "no Bay-area hiring" for over a year now. It seems at least one company agrees with "There’s no surplus value in hiring i
by jnwatson 2y ago
At Google, HR has dictated to our team "no Bay-area hiring" for over a year now. It seems at least one company agrees with "There’s no surplus value in hiring in the Bay Area".
- hot_gril 2y agoBut are they hiring in other parts of the US instead, or other countries?
- jnwatson 2y agoBoth
- pyb 2y agoWhat's HR'a rationale?
- jpollock 2y agoThe engineering pool is broad enough (or the Bay Area shallow enough) that they can hire everywhere and get the same quality of engineer. Since the wages paid are based on _local_ prevailing wage, and the Bay Area has the highest prevailing wage, Google will get cheaper engineers. This also avoids the US immigration system, which is a terrible, expensive, stress inducing (performance sapping) thing for staff (and businesses) to interact with. Finally, by distributing engineers to other countries, they counter some of the political "They're not _local_" arguments being made in various countries.
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- ldjkfkdsjnv 2y agoEngineers are increasingly commoditized, and businesses like google no longer need outlier talent
- AtlasBarfed 2y agoGoogle doesn't do anything interesting anymore.
- tayo42 2y agoDoesn't Google want everyone in an office? How does that work?
- klipklop 2y agoFrom a local office taking matching orders from MTV.
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- bitwize 2y agoLook, if you want to hire the smartest, most innovative people in the world, you go to San Francisco. Period, end of statement. But FAANG are no longer hiring the smartest, most innovative people in the world. Those people served their purpose, and were instrumental in making FAANG huge. FAANG stays huge by keeping the lights on at minimal cost. That takes legions of schlubs to maintain and incrementally improve their massive infrastructure... and those are more plentifully, and cheaply, found elsewhere.
- ilrwbwrkhv 2y agoGoogle is also a failing company though. Not sure they are a good role model when it comes to hiring.