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You hire elite talent by competing in the talent marketplace with compensation and opportunity.

If I can go to FB/Goog and pull down ~350k+ a year, why should I come work for you? You need to have a really good answer or something that is differentiating/compelling enough.

Either that or you'll have to be comfortable settling for lower quality talent and the associated consequences - it becomes a strategy question at that point.

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Yes, compensation is not the issue. It is finding the people.

Just to confirm, you are well above 350k, correct?

He can be far below that if he adds some other goodies. People vary, so not everybody will agree, but for example:

a. not engaged in tracking people across the web or elsewhere, or any other kind of sneaky spying

b. location that doesn't require being well above 350k to have a nice life

c. politically like the other half of America

I would not accept a FB/Goog job for 350k. Add a golden parachute worth twenty million dollars and I might reconsider, but that isn't normally offered.

Well, you don't know that do you? Or do you have insight into why people are ignoring your recruiting messages? Could be very well about compensation but could be other reasons, too.

Absolutely, I do not know for certain.

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