Since tech compensation is so high in areas such as SF, NY, Seattle, will wfh lower TC as supply of workers increases?

May 9, 2020 32 Comments

Why not reduce SF, NY, Seattle based employees and just hire remote workers from India, Bangalore? Even better hire new grads from Waterloo, Stanford, Cal Tech, Harvard etc, but give them lower base salaries what use to be $150k TC starting reduce it to $100k TC and tell the new grads they can work remote/find a low cost of living area. New grads can live with their parents or move to areas such as Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska and still have the same quality of life as they did making $150k in the Bay area.

What's preventing the Zucc, Bezos, and Sundar from looking at the numbers and realizing just hiring a bunch of remote workers gets more bang for buck when the dude in Punei/Chennai) Delhi will do the job for only $80k instead of $200k and rsu?

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  • Samsara
    yHLn43

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    yHLn43
    The quality of workers outside of the tech hubs is much lower.
    May 9, 2020 5
    • Amazon / Eng
      10xngineer

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      10xngineer
      More like the most talented move to the hubs for the dough if they can/want. Guess what would happen when the giants and the VC funded playgrounds are more open minded with the locations and become more generous with the compensation outside of the hubs.
      May 21, 2020
    • Bank of The West / Data
      DataSassy

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      DataSassy
      I guess that attributes to the manager. If the manager is smart, code is better for sure.
      May 22, 2020
  • Found the waterloo grad lol
    May 9, 2020 2
  • Oracle / Eng
    noogler169

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    noogler169
    Talking to my manager at Google, its unlikely we will shift to a complete wfh with remote workers.
    Google is also looking into wfh but the consensus is that its not going to happen. I also agree with this, I am working on a project and we have to debug some stuff as a team it takes 2-3x time to do it and also affects team morale.
    May 9, 2020 2
    • Neurocrine
      kN7c

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      kN7c
      Didn't Google just tell employees they could wfh for the rest of the year?
      May 9, 2020
    • Oracle / Eng
      noogler169

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      Thats just temporary onve vaccine is out folks will go back to work
      May 9, 2020
  • New
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    N034
    Wow, why would any manager want to trade local employees for remotes in India? I been hearing how all jobs will be moving to India for 2 decades now. Didn’t happen, the valley continues to grow.
    May 10, 2020 2
    • The folks making the assertion have never managed remote teams.
      May 10, 2020
    • Amazon
      el_nerdist

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      el_nerdist
      I've managed a large team in India (visited there several times as well). The quality of employees I worked with were top notch. I have so much respect for them and their skills. I've even flown some of them to Cali (if they wanted to go) to see what it's like on this side of the pond and help boost collaboration with my us team.

      My biggest take away from this experience is that my team out in pune do not make the amount they deserve and it very much upsets me. Unfortunately, bigger companies make it hard to get much higher comp approved. Only way I was able to was with title changes and it wasn't a lot. Those guys and girls deserve wayyyyy better. </rant>
      May 16, 2020
  • Facebook
    promopromo

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    promopromo
    American companies hire locally for political reasons as well. Govs give companies tax breaks or special contracts so that they can hire locally and grow local communities.
    May 9, 2020 1