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How are they going to recruit for that without paying megabucks
by boredatoms 1y ago
How are they going to recruit for that without paying megabucks
- bpodgursky 1y agoThey pay megabucks.
- boredatoms 1y agoMost startups are poor though, so I cant see this becoming widespread
- DavidSJ 1y agoSometimes literally with that SI prefix.
- preommr 1y agoBy leveraging an oversaturated labor market. This will upset people, but I love programming enough that I would do 996 at 40k-50k usd, with half going to rent and potentially even paying out of pocket for medical insurance.
- Philpax 1y agoIf you're willing to take a loss like that, you should spend your time programming for yourself, not willingly making yourself a victim of exploitation.
- winrid 1y agoWhy? At that salary just be a bus driver or something and code for fun.
- gruez 1y agoSame reason why "starving artists" (eg. actors, musicians, and game developers) don't become bus drivers and do their art over the weekend. They like the job so much they'd rather take the pay cut and poor working conditions just to work in the job. It's a well-known concept in economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensating_differential https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensating_differential
- karmakurtisaani 1y agoBut would you be OK with the fact that your boss is making millions off your passion? As an ex-academic, I know where you're coming from. In academia it's easier to justify working all thr time, since at least no one is making money. It's just for the love of pursuing knowledge. I cannot imagine breaking my back smiling just to make someone else rich.
- gruez 1y agoI think OP's point isn't that he'd accept taking a job at [insert tech company here] and have them pay him $50k, when the going rate is $300k or whatever, it's that in a hypothetical scenario where programming isn't prestigious and the pay was only $50k, he'd still take that job (as opposed to finding another line of work like finance or whatever).
- jennyholzer 1y agoWhy wouldn't you do freelance or speculative work if you're putting that many hours in?
- horns4lyfe 1y agoThat’s so dumb, you don’t have to do that to spend all your time programming. Honestly
- princevegeta89 1y agoBy bullshitting to employees that what they're building is the next big thing. AI has created a very bad culture and these startups have become very good at grabbing new grads or junior engineers that have a lot of energy and time and by saying they're going to be doing amazing things by working these 996 schedules... The reality is the vast majority of these companies will be hit hard by a burst of the AI bubble. It won't be a surprise the so called millions they're looking for end up being a 0.