Upstarts raid giants for talent in Silicon Valley

Re:Upstarts raid giants for talent in Silicon Valley by wyclif on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @08:35AM (#10085007)

Yes, and those articles are totally unconvincing drivel. If there really was a shortage, and the role is truly crucial, then they'll increase their offer. But the UK is not going to be able to fill those roles when engineers can get an offer in SV from Google, Facebook, or Apple.

"There's no shortage of smart, hardworking engineers. There's a shortage of smart, hardworking engineers willing to work for very little money." ~ David "Pardo" Keppel

If you're having trouble hiring, it's probably because you're not paying enough. It turns out that talented people are worth paying a lot for.

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Re:Upstarts raid giants for talent in Silicon Valley by DamnYuppie on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @10:43AM (#10085812)

And then the companies come and ask to raise the number of visa's for foreign workers.

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Re:Upstarts raid giants for talent in Silicon Valley by wyclif on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @11:31AM (#10086167)

But nobody says we need to increase the number of visas for CEOs and VCs. That's because the cultural expectation is that those people make lots of money. Engineers need to stop selling themselves short, or allowing MBAs to short them, as if they are mere "code monkeys."

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Re:Upstarts raid giants for talent in Silicon Valley by pixelp3 on Thursday August 20, 2015 @03:04AM (#10090363)

This argument doesn't make a lot of sense to me when it comes to bigger companies like Google, MS, Apple, etc. etc. Do you know how much H1Bs at these companies make? The data is open, you can look at how much Google pays them in the Bay Area for example. To say that Americans WON'T accept such salaries is ridiculous to me

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