> > I’d argue that you’re way better off hiring 6 devs that can go from business problem -> technical solution in their head, without all the ceremony, instead of 40 devs who can’t and 6 PMs to wrangle them.
> The problem is that finding those 6 experienced devs is _HARD_. And they're usually very expensive and know their value.
It's harder than finding uncaring juniors, sure.
But if you need 40+6 people, or 6 experienced people, that's nearly 8x salary.
In silicon valley money, you'll need to pay those uncaring juniors about 150K.
I guarantee you that you can very easily find those 6 experienced people in a few weeks if you're offering over $1M/yr to them. In a month you can staff all 6 positions.
If you're saying you want ~8x performance but not interested in paying ~8x salary.. then yes, it's harder to find the people.
The problem is that I'm not talking about Silicon Valley, it's an anomaly within an anomaly when it comes to hiring.
I'm pretty sure that short of John Carmack or a legend of that caliber I can't justify paying 1M to _anyone_ to the people making the budget.
Of course you can grab a half dozen superstars if you pay them a million per head, but they'll also leave the second the job stops being 100% interesting.
That's not a sustainable way to build a company or a team.
Yea, they f'd up a whole generation because of TRADITION.
There was a good video about this but the tl;dw is about this:
In Japan you're supposed to get hired straight out of school and then you'll stay with The Company until you retire.
The same tradition implies that The Company will _never_ fire people.
Japan faced some very hard times. Companies couldn't afford to hire new people because they couldn't fire the older people.
A whole generation never really entered the workforce because they never got the experience. Now they're mostly doing odd jobs and for the same reason never got married and had children.
> The problem is that finding those 6 experienced devs is _HARD_. And they're usually very expensive and know their value.
It's harder than finding uncaring juniors, sure.
But if you need 40+6 people, or 6 experienced people, that's nearly 8x salary.
In silicon valley money, you'll need to pay those uncaring juniors about 150K.
I guarantee you that you can very easily find those 6 experienced people in a few weeks if you're offering over $1M/yr to them. In a month you can staff all 6 positions.
If you're saying you want ~8x performance but not interested in paying ~8x salary.. then yes, it's harder to find the people.