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Re:Why I Haven’t Hired a Single Developer in Canada by suyash on Friday April 12, 2013 @05:23PM (#5541115)
Yup, basically the author is cheap and does not respect quality talent and does not believe in fair compensation. It's clear when he says 'it was a tough pill to swallow' which also means highly egoist. I'd recommend staying away from his company any day even if he wants you.
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Re:Why I Haven’t Hired a Single Developer in Canada by aquadrop on Friday April 12, 2013 @07:14PM (#5541668)
Why do you think he found less quality talent in Argentine? It's just cost of living there is less and smaller salary could be enough.
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Re:Why I Haven’t Hired a Single Developer in Canada by suyash on Friday April 12, 2013 @07:29PM (#5541739)
Argentine? I think you did not get the point. I meant he most likely does not respect quality talented programmers in Canada and think paying 75K for his 1st engineer is overpriced, he is viewing the problem from only one lens: money.
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Re:Why I Haven’t Hired a Single Developer in Canada by davidandgoliath on Friday April 12, 2013 @10:06PM (#5542236)
He's viewing the problem from one lens: runway. Lower upfront costs equal a greater chance of survival for a startup. What's the issue in that? Not all of us have access to gigantic amounts of liquidity for our hobby-shops.
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Re:Why I Haven’t Hired a Single Developer in Canada by MetaCosm on Friday April 12, 2013 @11:09PM (#5542377)
No, he looks at it one way: value.

If he can get a SMARTER, MORE EXPERIENCED, CHEAPER developer in Argentina, why on earth would he hire a Canadian developer?

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Re:Why I Haven’t Hired a Single Developer in Canada by suyash on Saturday April 13, 2013 @03:46AM (#5542861)
his post only emphasizes on one point: CHEAPER. He himself acknowledges there are more talented and experienced people in Canada but he won't hire them.
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Re:Why I Haven’t Hired a Single Developer in Canada by MetaCosm on Saturday April 13, 2013 @06:05AM (#5543033)
" I didn’t choose guys that were second best to those here in Canada, I selected the cream of the crop. " -- please quote me where in the article he said there are more talented and experienced people in Canada....

He said there was talent in Canada at (at least) 4x that cost.

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Re:Why I Haven’t Hired a Single Developer in Canada by suyash on Sunday April 14, 2013 @04:29AM (#5546326)
"Finding the right talent in Canada wasn’t difficult. That’s right, it was easy to find. Talent was plentiful. There were extremely intelligent and capable developers." -- He clearly says that there were plentiful dev's in Canada who were extremely intelligent. I think you are confused, 'more' here means quantity and not quality, although the latter was also plentiful.
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