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Comment by jknoepfler | Hacker News Reader

money will not fix this situation. if you breach trust once over compensation, you lose all goodwill from your staff. your talented staff will leave immediately. there's nothing to be done to fix it, full stop.

the literal second a company begins curtailing engineer benefits they transition from a forward moving company to a fungibility-fest maintenance mode enterprise

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Well said. I started my dream job 1 year ago. 6 months ago we were purchased and our benefits were all cut. I've lost over 50% of my team, we can't hire new people. I still have very interesting engineering problems to solve, but I feel cheated out of what I signed up for.

Your dream job is no more. Your should leave, too.

I know, i've been casually looking. I'm just so determined to make a large salary leap on my next job and find somewhere I can stay for a few years (that's what I thought I had with the current job before things changed).

Because of this i'm taking my time looking because my resume only gets better by the day with what I do currently.

Similar story here. Company was purchased recently, new health benefits are messing people up, and most of the staff lost anywhere from 20% to 60% of their compensation.

I am trying to move on, but I can not solve data structures/algorithms on white boards with people staring over my shoulder. :|

My interviewees wrote code by hand, but on a paper on a desk, seated opposite me. Surely you can ask for this less stressful alternative?

I would not necessarily describe it as stress. Just more of a complete break down of the mental process and over thinking of what I am doing.

The best engineers are also going to have options. Cutting benefits is acting as a filter to remove your best staff...

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