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The technology labor market right now is inverted? When in historical economics have we needed a great deal more

'senior' people than 'junior' people. It's not the same as having an 'unskilled' labor market. It's having a 'less skilled'

labor market. I'd love to understand why instead of hiring a 'senior engineer' at $120,000+ or whatever people don't hire

2 'junior engineers' at like $20,000 each. I bet those 2 junior engineers would more than make up for the 'senior engineer'.

This isn't to denigrate 10x philosophy. This is to say that these technology companies actually DON'T need human capital,

or their managers don't have (or haven't shifted) their perspective such that they could simply apply '2 heads are better

than 1' philosophy.

Am I missing the mark? Or are companies mostly run right now by faux elitists who use the 'I don't have time to train'

philosophy to ignore emerging talent. It seems like there's great waste right now and I'm looking for ways to transform it to productivity.

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sheriffderek 8mo ago

There’s a very wide spectrum of what a given dev has seen, has experience with, is good at, and how they communicate and use their time. So, I think it’s a bit different because of that.

I have worked on many teams, and I’ve done some hiring. And now I teach #design and #dev . So, I’ve seen people getting 160k and be barely contributing - and people getting 50k and doing a tone of meaningful work. Laying brick is a lot more visually measurable.

But I do think that in many cases, hiring two 70k devs instead of a single dev is often the right choice. The key is - they have to be able to think a bit more cross-role and not just wait for directions. Because that’s often why you need the “Senior” devs. If everyone were to think of themselves more like a _designer_ instead of a coder - a lot of this gets fixed.