How to Game Silicon Valley’s System

Re:How to Game Silicon Valley’s System by vonmoltke on Friday February 13, 2015 @11:31AM (#9045141)

Exactly. The Bay Area in particular bitches and moans about "lack of talent" but has such hiring myopia that only a few companies can see talent that is more than 50 miles away.

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Re:How to Game Silicon Valley’s System by hugs on Friday February 13, 2015 @12:09PM (#9045376)

I once had a co-worker (who lives inside the San Francisco city limits) say: "San Jose? Why would I ever drive that far south?! As for as I'm concerned, San Jose is Southern California." He was serious.

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Re:How to Game Silicon Valley’s System by chubot on Friday February 13, 2015 @12:40PM (#9045635)

So? Nobody who lives in SF would drive themselves to San Jose every day. The traffic is insane. You would kill 3-4 hours a day easily.

Hence the point that companies (say in San Jose) should allow remote work to attract employees in SF.

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Re:How to Game Silicon Valley’s System by hugs on Friday February 13, 2015 @01:16PM (#9045970)

Sorry, I should have connected the dots to the parent comment. It means he wasn't interested in recruiting new hires from San Jose or anywhere else that wasn't a short commute into the city... unless of course, they agreed to move.

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Re:How to Game Silicon Valley’s System by x0x0 on Friday February 13, 2015 @01:57PM (#9046340)

Because it would be a bad hire. Those 50 miles are at least a 90 minute drive each way most of the day.

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Re:How to Game Silicon Valley’s System by hugs on Friday February 13, 2015 @02:29PM (#9046619)

Of course a 90 minute commute is a horrible idea. So why would they have to drive? Why couldn't they work from home? If code is checked into GitHub and deployed to cloud servers, why are we requiring new hires to work in the SF office every day? (That was my point.)

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Re:How to Game Silicon Valley’s System by x0x0 on Friday February 13, 2015 @02:49PM (#9046760)

ah, I understand

you're preaching to the choir

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Re:How to Game Silicon Valley’s System by hugs on Friday February 13, 2015 @03:31PM (#9046993)

:-) I could have also mentioned that this particular co-worker had influence over recruiting and office policies...

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Re:How to Game Silicon Valley’s System by dalvdalv on Friday February 13, 2015 @12:36PM (#9045588)

It could take 2+ hours to commute from SF to SJ during rush hour.

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