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Even better: a software company that makes software for the government. And has actual revenue and long term contracts. Yes we are hiring, email in bio.
Contractors are immediately brutalized in any sort of government budget cut. They go first, instantly.
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> We are not machine. Counterpoint: if you want to stay relevant in technology and be above regular level, you gotta have the passion for it and that implies doing your homework. Look at it from another perspective. If you want to play a guitar in a band for money, you don’t require the band to give you “time to learn”. You learn on your own time. If you don’t want to learn, you become irrelevant and get replaced.
You think doctors/nurses do homework? They go to paid courses/conferences all the time to stay up-to-date on the latest medical techniques. Hospitals have entire teaching departments for that kinda stuff. Why should it be different for engineers?
I remember as a kid helping him swap out the latest updates to these massive binders of the latest and greatest info in medicine, which were expensive subscriptions he paid for. They'd send sections of text and instructions on what pages to remove and replace with the update so you'd always have the most current information.
Now we have web-based solutions that do the same thing, and they're often not free, either.
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I agree competent people are worth every penny. Why are you not paying enough to get them? The salaries you listed are half what they'd be in Ireland and something like a quarter - maybe less - of what they'd be in California.
> Why are you not paying enough to get them? Because they’re not competent? I pay my senior 30% above what he asked, he still doesn’t want to test all edge cases and lets slip many things because he wants us to hire a tester. Actually competent people are paid surprisingly little, because then they struggle to increase their wage.
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It takes two to tango. If you want to get paid, become someone who's useful. This attitude where employees sit like bags of potatoes waiting for knowledge to permeate their brains via osmosis is awful.
You’re missing the point. It’s that companies shouldn’t expect employees to improve themselves for the companies benefit on their own time. Not that employees shouldn’t improve themselves for their own benefit on their own time if they want to. Ergo if companies expect employees to work specifically to get better at their jobs they should provide resources and training in work time as its part of the job itself.
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What's wrong with those two? I'm genuinely interested, software engineers are overpaid as is with benefits that nearly every other industry can only dream about and you're upset about not being able to put extra 5 hours of time a week to improve your skills related to something that's your career? And we wonder why quality of everything is awful and why people are unreliable and entitled.
You're paying your employee because they are suitable at this moment. Expecting someone to study in their free time is nonsense. If you want that you either need to pay for it or allow study time during the work time.
Their time to zero is in the 2-3 year range but a lot of companies are dealing with a people issue to make sure staff is aware of the state and has confidence they aren’t going to get laid off.
Most seem to have held for 3-4 weeks. Will see at that point how many are paused indefinitely or are back to normal.
If a company is near the end of the runway, they maybe in damage control and would be concerning.