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No, I think the issue is that software developers have reached a limit of how low a salary they are willing to work for, and not enough of them have a limit tha
by jbjohns 13y ago
No, I think the issue is that software developers have reached a limit of how low a salary they are willing to work for, and not enough of them have a limit that is low enough for what companies are willing to pay so rather than cave in, the companies are playing politics with the hope of flooding the markets to drive prices down nationally.
- cbhl 13y agoIf that is indeed the rationale, I don't think having more bodies in the SF Bay Area is going to help. (More people means housing prices will go up, and thus, the rational price accepted by half-decent developers should go up. It's easy to spend 70% of a entry-level Google salary on housing in the city right now.) I wonder if buying up a bunch of houses in Detroit, and offering one as a starting bonus (along with gigabit Internet and a nearby Wal-Mart) would be enough to entice people to work for less.