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user-inactivated  ·  2880 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dropbox cut a bunch of perks and told employees to save more as Silicon Valley startups brace for the cold

A year or so is the average stint everywhere, because there are a lot of options and for most of them the only real requirement is knowing the tools, so changing jobs is easy. If you're Google or Amazon you want to keep the people whose primary qualification is knowing information retrieval, or machine learning, or..., you don't care about people whose primary qualification is being able to make python sing and dance because the guys who can make python sing and dance can make python sing and dance anywhere, and are liable to leave because they want to play with a new toy, or have an offer near their favorite pizza place, or...





kleinbl00  ·  2880 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And if you keep hiring entry level people, you never have to give them raises, and if your vesting schedule is 5, 15, 40 40 the stock options you promised them don't even matter because they'll never get more than 20% of them on the outside.