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This might be true if you are looking for some top 0.5% talent to solve the cutting edge most difficult challenges in tech, but for the vast majority of compani

• trenchpilgrim 1y ago
  In my experience hiring, its not just the top 0.5%, more like the top 30-50%.
  • ryandrake 1y ago
    I think HN's demographic skews young and commenters here vastly overestimate how many of us are constantly job hopping every 3 years.
    • trenchpilgrim 1y ago
      Yeah especially as you age the healthcare policy can become as important as pay. Have known plenty of people who got most of their value from health benefits + stock plans rather than the base salary.
• lexarflash8g 1y ago
  Most companies aren’t Apple, Nvidia, or Google chasing the top 0.1% of “elite” talent. Outside of a few AI-focused startups, the reality is that 90% of companies are sitting on legacy codebases, still running VMs, or duct-taping CRUD apps together with APIs. If you happen to be a superstar with a rare niche skill (like building frontier AI models), you basically skip the interview loop and get fought over with million-dollar offers. But that’s a tiny fraction of the market. For everyone else, hiring looks a lot like dating: both sides aim for a “10,” but usually settle for a “6 or 7.” And the whole process is signaling—candidates overstate their skills, companies oversell their culture and tech stack, and the match lands somewhere in the middle. Probably the most important non-technical skill is dealing with the egos in the industry since you will come across a lot of them.