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It's not false. Those are the people who have already proven that they have the necessary experience to build those products so the rate of success is simply mu
by menaerus 2y ago
It's not false. Those are the people who have already proven that they have the necessary experience to build those products so the rate of success is simply much higher rather than seeking the talent elsewhere. Startups and US companies apply this strategy all the time - you want success, poach the good people from competing companies.
I think people outside the domain often underestimate the complexity of Internet-scale infrastructure software and hardware. You don't find such challenges very easily elsewhere so simply paying more money to random engineer doesn't stand more chance than paying the same money to already established engineer in that domain.
- Aeolun 2y ago> so the rate of success is simply much higher rather than seeking the talent elsewhere This is true to some extend, but I don’t want the riffraff that built AWS building the EU infrastructure. It works to some extend, but some consistency would be a very welcome addition.
- menaerus 2y agoI don't understand what is your concern. What consistency? If you need engineers with storage engines domain expertise at scale, or query execution challenges, where else do you find those people if not in existing businesses that have already proven they have a workforce delivering exactly that type of work?