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by doh 2505 days ago
Good analysis. The reality however is, that there are hardly any people with experience in other areas. We can only follow the current distribution and don't have a decade to build out our own talent from scratch. We invest heavily in education and growth, but it still has some time limits.

We already have sister offices in CO, MN and Czech Republic for this reason. It ads crazy complexity to the operations, but at least we have access to more talent than we had before.
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blihp 2505 days ago
I'd suggest that your premise ('hardly any people with experience') is wrong. Half the skills you list are relatively common. For a company of your size, finding a few dozen people with most of those skills in any major metro area in the U.S. is pretty trivial. Granted, the price you'll have to pay for them might not make you happy[1]... but they do exist.

[1] it's not FAANG level, but it's also not 105k. (if your top end compensation is significantly higher, you should probably be indicating that. Or perhaps breaking out minimum salary by position if they differ significantly.)

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doh 2505 days ago
> Half the skills you list are relatively common

Which skills?

> it's not FAANG level, but it's also not 105k.

105k is minimum wage for an engineer. That's why it says minimum in the post.

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blihp 2505 days ago
> Which skills?

C/C++, DBA/Architect, Java, DevOps, QA

> 105k is minimum wage for an engineer. That's why it says minimum in the post.

Perhaps it's just me, but when I see a salary listing without I high-end, I assume that's because it's pretty low.

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doh 2505 days ago
> C/C++, DBA/Architect, Java, DevOps, QA

Those are not skills, those are positions. We don't list skills, as they are quite arbitrary and really don't say much about their potential.

> Perhaps it's just me, but when I see a salary listing without I high-end, I assume that's because it's pretty low.

We found that writing the upper bound, many candidate assume that the upper bound is the general compensation and get quite upset if we don't value them as high.

We found this to be working better.

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masonic 2505 days ago
Can I ask what the oldest age is that you have hired for a non-management position?
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doh 2504 days ago
In their 50s. The average age in the company is now in mid 30s
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