You took a simple yes-no question and failed to answer it because you saw it as another opportunity to whine about … whatever it is you are always whining about.
This law covers all “computer professionals” and not everyone that is a coder is from a top school working in Silicon Valley.
I’m thinking that maybe there are more than a few 3rd-rate Access programmers at a car parts warehouse in Modesto that were making less than $90K before this law came along. Did they all get big raises?
Seems the guy in the basement with the red stapler is doing alright after all.[/quote]
No, I took a question asked by someone that seems clueless in the software space, and answered as accurately as I could based on my hiring record for the past few years and what I am seeing locally and in NorCal.
Seems to be you don’t know the difference between software engineer and programmers, and who knows what your friend needs…If simply want a “programmer” working on some dead end “project” with some dead end tech that a high school student could do these days , I am sure you can find a bargain basement person to slap a bunch a shit together that can get a POC done or at least looks functional, just like if you want a shitty IT guy from DeVry to handle your corp network security, go for that too.
If you can’t tell the difference between software engineering and programmer let alone Access programmer (lol), we don’t need to have this discussion because both you and your friend don’t need software engineer. you need a monkey programmer that doesn’t really have to do that well of a job.
I just hired someone with about 3 years experience. about $13Ok, not including relocation. I am about to offer fresh graduate that did great as an intern starting around $100k. We’re a private company, and it’s tough to compete against the bigger employers that have a matching 401k, ESPP, RSU stock grants…because every informed hire knows those private stock options are pretty much worthless in most cases. And these guys, while they are good, I wouldn’t consider top talent.
San Diego can’t hire top talent unless you are willing to pay an arm and a leg for, because top talent ends up going to Silly Valley. In most cases you don’t need top talent…and in many cases top talent ends up being a pain in the ass arrogrant overpriced pricks not worth hiring.. But, because of how insane it is in Silly Valley, it inflates everything else in metro SoCal, even for not so top talent that is what you really need for most of the work out there. That reduces available supply of qualified workers for even less interesting/challenging/promising work, which is what your friend would find himself in. You aren’t going to find too many decent software professionals starving and willing to work for peanuts in SoCal, unless it’s friends doing you a favor or unless your offering a sizeable stake in equity AND your company idea is believable. ideas are a dime a dozen, finding people to execute is going to be the problem…especislly when you don’t have a good $$$$ story…. And you’ll find it difficult to get people to relocate here, because wages aren’t that much lower elsewhere, but the cost of living is much more, and to get them to move, you’ll need to give them a COL adjustment.
Also, it is increasingly difficult to hire H1Bs, so that puts a constraint on the talent pool as well. Simple supply and demand of too few workers chasing too much available work
Me complaining? why would you think so? Tech looks great right now for workers. Employers have to pay an arm and leg for good software talent these days, especially anything AI or Mobile related. Hours way better than when I was younger, and comp is way better too. it’s never been better!
I wish your friend good luck. he’s going to need it.
