Re:Plenty of Passengers, but Where Are the Pilots?
by x0x0 on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @02:33AM
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Careful: don't apply that thinking to the "engineering shortage" or you'll never hear the end of it on HN. Engineers live in magicland, and in magicland, supply curves don't exist. People should work for passion and $60k, and if you don't, you're not a real engineer.
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Re:Plenty of Passengers, but Where Are the Pilots?
by narsil on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @04:18AM
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Not sure what you mean. Plenty, if not most, engineers on HN are compensated at market rate for their region and skill-set. The uproar over the anti-poaching scandal involving Apple, Google, etc. from a few years ago was due to the artificial wage deflation that it created. I can't recall folks from HN siding with the corporations during that time. Sure, sweat equity is valued at early-stage cash-strapped startups, but that is in addition to "passion" and a lower salary.