An under remarked-upon trend: SFBA/NYC engineering wages are starting to drive engineering wages in the rest of the US as these companies open other US hubs and print remote offers, in both cases keeping salaries in relatively tight bands for e.g. internal fairness reasons.
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My hypothetical example of what I would have done with my life if I had not gone to MIT is “write Visual FoxPro for the local paint company” and it is not actually a hypothetical
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Unfortunately nobody knows anything about FoxPro or paint so they know and smile like this is reasonable (and, I mean, paint is interesting at least)
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All well put. Add there's a big "knowing what you're worth" angle to morale, recruiting & retention. Having recently left a Midwest eng org, the constant coffee talk was "seriously, why haven't we left for AppAmaGooBookSoft money yet?" then scrollinghttp://levels.fyi
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Even without pretty negligible numbers of AppAmaGooFaceSoft jobs available down the street, they become the anchor point in negotiations. Starts a regional spiral that doesn't get you to parity but does seem to move things from 50% to 80% or so even for "insurance company" jobs
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@basecamp pays everyone SF wage for this reason.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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psh no. It is still way way way more productive to have everyone in the same room most of the time. If the company can support paying a premium to have everyone not remote they will have a real and big advantage against competitors. Winner take all this matters - a great deal..
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And then the company gets bigger than can fit in a room, or building or your head and you’re remote again. Teams can still be colocated but that is a minor requirement relatively
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Only if web applications don't reach their peak. It's entirely reasonable that they will in the next 5 years.
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Why do you think that might happen?
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