News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less (2014). Parent comment

Re:Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get... by aleph_minus_one on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @04:12PM (#40589957)
> My observations suggest that this applies far more to lower performing employees than higher performing ones since the barrier to change jobs is lower for top tier talent.

I think talent and the capability to market/self-promote oneself (only for the latter capability, the barrier to change jobs is much lower) are mostly uncorrelated.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get... by downut on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @05:04PM (#40590608)
EDIT: Grrr! This comment meant for the GP, sorry.

I think there is an unstated underlying assumption in this comment that "higher performing" implies "drop-in transferable technical/social skills" legible to the target interviewing entity. Maybe for software but for wide swaths of actually engineering (double graduate engineers in this family) I doubt that rather strongly.

The default 2 weeks vacation for the decades experienced new hire is a pretty strong tell.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get... by qingcharles on Thursday June 06, 2024 @02:54PM (#40601046)
Coming from the EU, every time I see "2 weeks vacation" I get a twitch.
[ Parent | on HN ]