Re:Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key en...
by fennecfoxen on Monday October 05, 2020 @07:48AM
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"Workers" are abundant. It's the human capital associated with the workers that's expensive. Engineers moving to California should be considered like other capital flows: there are unlikely to be major flows into places where their flexibility is unduly impaired by regulations structured to favor existing, powerful incumbent interests (in this case, the noncompetes).
Re:Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key en...
by cortesoft on Monday October 05, 2020 @03:05PM
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High quality software developers are not abundant.
Re:Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key en...
by fennecfoxen on Monday October 05, 2020 @10:33PM
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And becoming good at writing software is an investment in your human capital.
He needs to flip that around... why would any employee agree to be hired when they can't leave, and can't work on things in their own time?
He doesn't understand that in this industry, it is the workers who are in short supply, not the capital. The best companies go to california and play by these rules because the best workers want to work by those rules.