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If the market has 10 openings and 9 engineers the companies should fight over the 9 by increasing overall compensation, soon another intelligent hard working in
by Phlarp 13y ago
If the market has 10 openings and 9 engineers the companies should fight over the 9 by increasing overall compensation, soon another intelligent hard working individual will be sufficiently incentivised to join the industry workforce.
- michaelt 13y agoSure, but if you want to hire someone with nonzero industry experience, your options are more limited :) this is what I mean when I say companies will have to lower their standards - inexperienced people into experienced-person positions, people who've been coding since they were 18 instead of people who've been coding since they were 10, people without university degrees instead of with them, and so on. No amount of demand can create people with two years of experience in less than two years, or people with four-year degrees in less than four years.
- danielweber 13y agoYou can also stop engineers from leaving for finance.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 13y agoYou can't go on the interstate with a vespa.
- jonny_eh 13y agoAnd that engineer will be dismissed as "not a real hacker" since they haven't been coding since 12 years old.
- Phlarp 13y agoWhat's stopping the market from bidding up the compensation of a small subset of programmers who have been coding since 12 the same way a small subset of lawyers have in corporate law and lobbying? As someone who has been coding since my teenage years; I just don't buy that this trait is absolutely essential to being a successful engineer. If it is why doesn't the market reflect this?
- leggo2m 13y ago"What's stopping the market from bidding up the compensation of a small subset of programmers who have been coding since 12" Oh.. nothing. http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/01/15/apple-google-anti-poaching-class-action-suit-to-proceed-after-court-refuses-appeal- http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/01/15/apple-google-anti-...