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Let me save you a click. It's about how to hire a great employee like NBA player Nikola Jokic (nicknamed “The Joker”). The trick? > The best answer is probabl
by yellow_lead 11mo ago
Let me save you a click. It's about how to hire a great employee like NBA player Nikola Jokic (nicknamed “The Joker”).
The trick?
> The best answer is probably just to try harder. Like, 10x harder(internal link). Figure out who did the work(internal link). Consider running work trials.
- 0928374082 11mo agothat article seems to assume that just because you hired someone, they'll stay with you for decades?
- swiftcoder 11mo agoThey probably will if you pay them equitably - my grandfather stayed with US Steel pretty much his whole career, but back then they payed him enough to send 4 kids to college on one salary.
- khannn 11mo agoTotal college cost per year for four kids in your grandfather's time: $10k. Total college cost per year for four kids today: $400k.
- swiftcoder 11mo agoIndeed, wages have not kept up with cost of living
- rmunn 11mo agoWhile that's partly true (modulo certain exceptions such as the cost of living varying quite a bit from place to place), the comment you were replying to was making a point about the cost of college. Which has grown so much faster than general inflation that it's in its very own category.
- swiftcoder 11mo agoI guess I don't see how we can meaningfully measure cost of living without taking into account cost of education. If a salary these days only puts the kids through high school, then the standard of living that salary buys has fallen drastically in practice.
- khannn 11mo agoMy BS comp sci degree was a waste of time, to be real. Fairly certain my first job out of college would have been appropriate for myself as a high school senior. One of my parents and two of my grandparents were programmers without needing anything more than a high school diploma. Despite the push for trades, I couldn't even get an interview without a degree even despite my experience. Add in the increase in the cost of living, stagnant wages, plus inflation and it doesn't make a pretty picture.
- baxtr 11mo agoTrying harder is not a strategy, which leads me to believe that guy knows nothing about the topic.