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> He gets programming better than probably any BigCo tech CEO and yet he made the same damn mistake of hiring thousands upon thousands of programmers instead of
by anamax 14y ago
> He gets programming better than probably any BigCo tech CEO and yet he made the same damn mistake of hiring thousands upon thousands of programmers instead of just getting the 10X Programmers and having 1/10th as many while paying them 2x as much.
What makes you think that Facebook doesn't hire every 10x programmer it can? What makes you think that Google doesn't?
After they hire every 10x programmer they can, what do you think they should do? They've still got money to spend and stuff to do. Are you seriously suggesting that they don't spend that money to do those things?
- staunch 14y agoOf course they hire 10X programmers, but they also hire 1X programmers. I'm suggesting that they could only hire 10X programmers and pay them 2X more. Twice the industry salary (~$250k/yr), nothing but 10X programmers, and an amazing campus would make Facebook unbelievably desirable for most programmers. Not even Google or Apple could compete because they still hire massive numbers of 1X programmers.
- anamax 14y ago> I'm suggesting that they could only hire 10X programmers and pay them 2X more. Why do you think that Google/Apple/Facebook don't pay 10X programmers >2X more? In my experience, admittedly at other companies, the 10X programmers do make a lot more. Yet there's still more work and more money to spend. What should they do with that work and money? You're making a lot of claims about salary structures. Where are you getting your information? What software engineering organizations do you have experience with? I ask because I'm beginning to suspect that your actual knowledge in this area is even less than that of the typical Harvard Business Review author....