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Exactly. The Bay Area in particular bitches and moans about "lack of talent" but has such hiring myopia that only a few companies can see talent that is more t
by vonmoltke 12y ago
Exactly. The Bay Area in particular bitches and moans about "lack of talent" but has such hiring myopia that only a few companies can see talent that is more than 50 miles away.
- hugs 12y agoI once had a co-worker (who lives inside the San Francisco city limits) say: "San Jose? Why would I ever drive that far south?! As for as I'm concerned, San Jose is Southern California." He was serious.
- dalvdalv 12y agoIt could take 2+ hours to commute from SF to SJ during rush hour.
- chubot 12y agoSo? Nobody who lives in SF would drive themselves to San Jose every day. The traffic is insane. You would kill 3-4 hours a day easily. Hence the point that companies (say in San Jose) should allow remote work to attract employees in SF.
- hugs 12y agoSorry, I should have connected the dots to the parent comment. It means he wasn't interested in recruiting new hires from San Jose or anywhere else that wasn't a short commute into the city... unless of course, they agreed to move.
- x0x0 12y agoBecause it would be a bad hire. Those 50 miles are at least a 90 minute drive each way most of the day.
- hugs 12y agoOf course a 90 minute commute is a horrible idea. So why would they have to drive? Why couldn't they work from home? If code is checked into GitHub and deployed to cloud servers, why are we requiring new hires to work in the SF office every day? (That was my point.)