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Hi. At your company and other Haskell teams that say they hire elite engineers, is an engineer's compensation higher than comparable non-FP shops? Please forgi

Hi. At your company and other Haskell teams that say they hire elite engineers, is an engineer's compensation higher than comparable non-FP shops? Please forgive the bluntness; as a guy who is about halfway down "the road to Haskell", it seems like none of the shops that say they value FP are willing to pay more for it. For me, it's been easier to extract money from a javashop that's starved for talent and just figure out a way to install FP there. DK effect might also be clouding my self valuation.

maxcan 13y ago
DK effect? I can only speak to my current company (dox) and Jane Street, where I worked a long time ago. At JSC, comp was above market and everyone was quite happy but they've quadrupled in size since my time so YMMV. As Dox, we are currently bootstrapping off of a small round and everyone is working well below market in terms of cash but with commensurately higher equity. we will be raising a round later this spring and intend to roughly match or exceed comparable shops when that round closes. we've been completely transparent about that to the entire team as they've all taken pay cuts to work with us a this early stage, something we respect and are extremely appreciative of. If immediate salary is a principle concern, probably best to look at JSC, Stan Chart, or Barcap rather than a place like us or one of the other startups.
- dllthomas 13y ago
  "DK effect?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect