After Layoffs, Why Do Tech Firms Still Claim Talent Shortages?
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Spoiler alert -- the reason is H1B visas
1) Problem solving skills
2) Unrelenting pursuit of truth in root cause analysis
Everyone else listed the tech stack of the project + others. What the fuck is with all the "tech" == skillset?
Not in pursuit of a good, or the best candidate, just the best candidate who is superficially good enough to stick around 90 days or whatever the contract states.
They can also act as an impromptu talent pool of workers for work that might otherwise need to be sent to expensive consultants.
And they are a soothing balm for the burnt fingers of talentless middle managers who find no push back, non-confrontational employees assuring to their egos.
If you're a hotshot Serbian developer making a two thirds of an American, you're going to look for ways to reduce that delta.
But that's years away.
It might a few months for a new engineer to get truly productive. And then all the existing engineers have to take time out of their day to do interviews. And then those same engineers spend time and energy onboarding the new hire. That’s all costs and lost productivity. All opportunity costs associated with hiring. And yet the company had — ostensibly — many employees of varying levels of productivity … it doesn’t seem to make sense that firing 10% or 50% meant that each of those was not justifying their salaries … especially if the next round of hires are juniors or even onshore’d seniors they still will need months of training on the current stack.