NSA’s best are ‘leaving in big numbers,’ insiders say

Posted by davidgerard on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @08:11PM
from the cyberscoop.com dept.

https://www.cyberscoop.com/nsa-morale-down-keith-alexander-mike-rogers/

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Re:NSA’s best are ‘leaving in big numbers,’ insiders say by mooreds on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @09:56PM (#13120121)

I think they should look to 18f as an example of how to bring private sector folks in for a time. Just like a startup can't compete with Google/Amazon/etc on benefits and salary, so has to compete on different dimensions (mission, ability to grow, equity, etc), the government and the NSA have their own strengths.

Salary is not one.

I am no expert on the NSA, but I imagine some of their strengths are:

Mission

Scale

Advanced tech

Real world impact

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Re:NSA’s best are ‘leaving in big numbers,’ insiders say by fbreduc on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @08:30PM (#13119815)

nsa salaries are crap, smart people realized too much blubber in govt and better pay will never come (usually goes to useless people).. only an idiot would stay.

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