vvvslaxman Posted November 19, 2014 Posted November 19, 2014 http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/programmers-price?intcid=mod-most-popular Few excerpts In Silicon Valley, where businesses are fuelled by venture capital, the “talent wars†have reached epic proportions. Andreessen said, “The motivation to go find talent wherever it is is unbelievably high.†The Google campus is famous for its playful amenities: nap pods, ball pits, massages, dry cleaning, all-you-can-eat buffets. Facebook recently announced that it would pay for its female employees to freeze their eggs. The “precationâ€â€”a sabbatical before starting a new job—has become commonplace. The biggest companies frequently get into bidding wars over the best talent. Twitter’s senior vice-president of engineering, Christopher Fry, was paid more than ten million dollars in stock options in 2012, second only to what the C.E.O. received. To prevent a programmer from defecting to Facebook, Google paid him three and a half million dollars in restricted stock options. Facebook has also become known for the “acquihireâ€: paying millions of dollars to acquire a company in order to poach its tech talent. The company gets shut down, and the engineers work for Facebook. Startups don’t have the money to compete with the giants. They can offer equity, but, Bradley said, “the market’s flooded with startups trying to do the same thing.†Plus, the most desirable developers—those with creative skills—often have entrepreneurial ideas of their own. “In their minds, you’re not just paying them to do their job,†one tech executive told me. “You’re paying them for the opportunity cost of not becoming Mark Zuckerberg.†In response, many startups have devised offbeat measures for luring candidates: offices that resemble a Chuck E. Cheese’s, with a music room (at Dropbox) and an indoor tree house (at Airbnb). Scopely, a mobile-game publishing company, rewards a new hire—or anyone who can deliver one—with eleven thousand dollars wrapped in bacon, an oil portrait of himself, and a harpoon gun. Just checked for few work places.. wow http://mashable.com/2014/01/09/playful-workspaces/#_
velu Posted November 19, 2014 Posted November 19, 2014 TechCrunch reported that Google responded by preempting Twitter by offering Mohan $100million and Sundar Pichai, another key product employee, $50million to keep them from leaving. :woot:
vvvslaxman Posted November 19, 2014 Author Posted November 19, 2014 TechCrunch reported that Google responded by preempting Twitter by offering Mohan $100million and Sundar Pichai, another key product employee, $50million to keep them from leaving. :woot: Opposite of what will happen to me.. "You wanna go.. Pllz there is the door" :cantstop:
velu Posted November 19, 2014 Posted November 19, 2014 Opposite of what will happen to me.. "You wanna go.. Pllz there is the door" :cantstop: its even worse here .. they are forcing us to resign by giving all sorts of troubles both physical and mental ( they dont want to fire directly ) :mad: but i am immoveable and unstoppable :giggle:
vvvslaxman Posted November 19, 2014 Author Posted November 19, 2014 its even worse here .. they are forcing us to resign by giving all sorts of troubles both physical and mental ( they dont want to fire directly ) :mad: but i am immoveable and unstoppable :giggle: Same here :cantstop:
randomGuy Posted November 19, 2014 Posted November 19, 2014 its even worse here .. they are forcing us to resign by giving all sorts of troubles both physical and mental ( they dont want to fire directly ) :mad: but i am immoveable and unstoppable :giggle: Lets do stock trading full time. Can have a joint fund for trading n investing. What say? ;)
Laaloo Posted November 19, 2014 Posted November 19, 2014 its even worse here .. they are forcing us to resign by giving all sorts of troubles both physical and mental ( they dont want to fire directly ) :mad: but i am immoveable and unstoppable :giggle: physical? :hmmm:
velu Posted November 19, 2014 Posted November 19, 2014 Lets do stock trading full time. Can have a joint fund for trading n investing. What say? ;) I ll full time trading after they fire me .. Need some stable secondary income here in India to take risk
velu Posted November 19, 2014 Posted November 19, 2014 physical? :hmmm: Asking us to come early , stay late , weekend urgent work , fix it and go home kind of crashes .. It's even worse if we travel to US.. There are guys who stayed in office for 3 or 4 days during releases like s3 and s4
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