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"many of those individuals seem eager to accept due in part to the opportunity Apple represents to build new product, instead of just doing “tedious updates” on a largely complete platform." Apparently, doing "tedious updates" on google maps is hard work and undesirable, but building apple maps should be a walk in the park.
"...position sounds like a product development manager position, and will pay him $85k+ and all the moving expenses from the East Coast..." "Apple Aggressively Recruiting Ex-Google Maps Staff..." ^These are contradictory statements
"...position sounds like a product development manager position, and will pay him $85k+ and all the moving expenses from the East Coast..." "Apple Aggressively Recruiting Ex-Google Maps Staff..." ^These are contradictory statements
It's a product development manager, not an engineer. They do the specification and to some extent project management. AFAIK managerial talent is not as rare as technical talent nowadays.
Apple bought three mapping companies: C3 Technologies, Poly9, and PlaceBase before this. I wonder what the heck happened on the data side.
Where "news" is used almost as loosely as "journalism".
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It's a product development manager, not an engineer. They do the specification and to some extent project management. AFAIK managerial talent is not as rare as technical talent nowadays.
I could see a run of the mill CRUD app PM making $85k, but someone who is being actively sought after by the most profitable company in the world because of demonstrated domain knowledge in an area where they have a clear need and who is expected to relocate to SV? $85k is laughable for that. Laughable!
"...position sounds like a product development manager position, and will pay him $85k+ and all the moving expenses from the East Coast..." "Apple Aggressively Recruiting Ex-Google Maps Staff..." ^These are contradictory statements
$300k and a $1m signing bonus would be more reasonable for this exceptionally narrow and valuable skill set. As you correctly point out, $85k is not in any way congruent with "aggressive recruitment". In the Bay area, it doesn't even qualify as a mediocre salary for recent grads with no specialization.
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$300k and a $1m signing bonus would be more reasonable for this exceptionally narrow and valuable skill set. As you correctly point out, $85k is not in any way congruent with "aggressive recruitment". In the Bay area, it doesn't even qualify as a mediocre salary for recent grads with no specialization.
"$300k and a $1m signing bonus" - Where is that figure coming from?
Bonus value based on the case of a few years ago, run of the mill employees getting $500k and up signing bonuses, plus generous options, to leave Google for pre-IPO Facebook. That's run of the mill guys, not guys with the specific talent you need working for the ONLY company that has completely solved the problem. For that person you need more, not less. Salary is based on current salaries for this level of extremely specialized expertise.
There are fewer than 10 people worldwide Apple can hire with the skills they need to organize this right. All the guys they acquired from three poorly known companies that were unable to solve these problems well enough to compete with Google are irrelevant since by definition those guys don't have the skills needed. It's not a buyer's market in any way shape or form.