Comp packages at startups are going up and they’re opening both the geographical and life story hiring windows.
One structural reason, framed as a sketch:
One structural reason, framed as a sketch:
https://twitter.com/buggeroaf/status/1447677234643275781
Founders: The hiring market is absolutely mad!
Me: Good thing capital is abundant then.
Founders: No you don’t understand. We can’t even find engineers for mad money.
Me: Press X to doubt.
Founders: Not helpful.
Me: *sigh* What creative things are you doing to fix this.
Me: Good thing capital is abundant then.
Founders: No you don’t understand. We can’t even find engineers for mad money.
Me: Press X to doubt.
Founders: Not helpful.
Me: *sigh* What creative things are you doing to fix this.
Founders: Asking our network for referrals and hiring sourcers.
Me: Neither of those is creative, and both of them are trivially duplicated by every other firm your lead invests in, which all have *the same* network.
Founders: So what would you do?
Me: Probably tweet a bit.
Me: Neither of those is creative, and both of them are trivially duplicated by every other firm your lead invests in, which all have *the same* network.
Founders: So what would you do?
Me: Probably tweet a bit.
Founders: That’s cheating.
Me: Is it though.
Founders: You have a 15 year head start.
Me: Yes but you own the company so rub some brain cells together and figure out a reason why a few hundred engineers should give you their email address 2 weeks from now.
Me: Is it though.
Founders: You have a 15 year head start.
Me: Yes but you own the company so rub some brain cells together and figure out a reason why a few hundred engineers should give you their email address 2 weeks from now.
Founders: What would that even look like!?
Me: Have you considered building a video game.
Founders: Well that would take a lot of work.
Me: Have you considered writing one artifact which advances the state of the art in any sub field.
Founders: Well that would take a lot of work.
Me: Have you considered building a video game.
Founders: Well that would take a lot of work.
Me: Have you considered writing one artifact which advances the state of the art in any sub field.
Founders: Well that would take a lot of work.
Me: Can you pair one front-end dev, one designer, and one fun API which has no good front-end and create an engaging way to display literally anything you want? Look at the crypto people; they have lots of fun examples.
Founders: So. Much. Work.
Me: Pay in $ or brainsweat.
Founders: So. Much. Work.
Me: Pay in $ or brainsweat.
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