[necheffa]

> Strategies for attracting and retaining tech talent in a non-tech industry

As someone who is a tech lead at a non-tech company that does software in house for a niche product in a niche market...

You can either treat the software as a product in it of itself (as opposed to bolting it on to other projects for your core business) or you should expect to include some hazard pay to compensate for the mental and spiritual trauma caused by trying to pretend you can treat the software like a line item in non-software projects that "just" need software support, ending up with 4-5 project managers trying to oversee/status a single software release.

We do the latter and if some of the other benefits were not as good as they are, it would absolutely be a deal breaker.

I suspect most other non-tech companies also operate in a similarly sub-optimal way (the blind leading the blind), but why would I put up with that level of ass-hattery for anything less than what the market can bear?