Re:Companies struggling to fill jobs 'should try paying more...
by humanrebar on Thursday November 15, 2018 @03:21PM
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Most devs, in my experience, are team players. They'll get the grunt work done. But if you ask them to do grunt work for even five years, you're making a big ask.
You might need to pay more to price in the pay cut they'll need to switch gears or the year off they'll need to retrain themselves on related open source side projects.
That being said, there are lots of engineers who get comfortable and shy. You can fill up all your desk chairs in your office eventually. You just won't have a well trained workforce, which is bad for everyone involved.
Re:Companies struggling to fill jobs 'should try paying more...
by mattmanser on Thursday November 15, 2018 @07:44PM
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This, again, reads like a bunch of people who don't want to do their actual job.
What exactly does 'retraining on related open source projects' even mean?
It either works, or it doesn't. Unless you're working in the schizo world of JavaScript, tech, in reality, doesn't change a massive amount in the space of 5 years.
If you're working on your internal crud enterprise app, no amount of training's going to magically change what needs to be done, or the almost certain fact that it's better to stick with the existing tech it's built on.
I think may of us go freelance/job hop because ultimately we get bored of a code base and the basic challenges, the fundamental requirements of an app simply don't change much.