On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote:
> I can't imagine being fought over by companies in this way. Then again > I am not a technological prodigy. All I seem to see in my career is > company complains about not being able to find good competent people > but on the other hand when companies do recruit seeing engineers being > paid quite poorly with some being ripped off badly. The promotions and > big salaries seeming to go to not the most technically talented but > rather the most arrogant and usually less talented people. The most > capable often being more down to earth but failing to get noticed > within the company. > > Still Silicon Valley seems like a whole other world. I can only > imagine what it would be like to live there. > I agree, I think it's something that is very specific to Silicon Valley, although it probably applies to a lesser extent to big cities as well. The hunt for talent down here is absolutely ruthless and you definitely don't need to be a stellar developer to land very big pays, although of course, the cost of living is in proportion as well. You still come up ahead in my experience. -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
