What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes?

Re:What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes? by dghlsakjg on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @05:50PM (#32324724)

The absolute hubris of SV people thinking that they can individually perform the jobs of 2-3 competent teams of people at literally any company outside of SV is why a lot of talented people want nothing to do with SV.

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Re:What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes? by Firmwarrior on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @01:19PM (#32334465)

And yet, I show up at a company as a consultant and in two weeks I singlehandedly take care of something ten people have been struggling with for a year

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Re:What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes? by dghlsakjg on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:13AM (#32356366)

Has it occurred to you that hiring a consultant is, by definition, an unusual situation?

That, perhaps, you have never had to come in and save any team at my company, or thousands of other companies, because we are competent developers?

Being able to do the work of 10 people once, does not mean that you are able to take 10 people from any company outside of a specific geographic area and replace them with one of you.

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Re:What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes? by 88 on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @02:57PM (#32335496)

Have you considered that a consultant hired to fix a specific problem, and salaried employees seeking to justify their existence, may have slightly misaligned incentives?

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