I don’t know if a lot of tech needs to hire back. Outside of AI, tech adoption is on the right side of the adoption S-curve and most development time right now is going to revenue generation.
And if you do need to hire back, you don’t need to hire from HCOL areas. Make the position full remote and price the salary to a LCOL area. You don’t need to pay a Bay Area wage any more.
I think many CEOs will see it that way. Better to underhire and ride their slop code base into further customer loss, data breaches, lawsuits and bankruptcy, than put up a weak quarter while something can still be done to save the business.
Hard to say, for sure, in each case. There’s often plenty of factors that could have been key. Fuck-ups tend to fuck up in a variety of interesting ways.
An obvious seeming one is Roomba’s infamous leaked person-on-toilet picture. I didn’t stop buying Roomba because I doubted their engineering. It was their (lack of a)
Privacy team.
I don’t know if a lot of tech needs to hire back. Outside of AI, tech adoption is on the right side of the adoption S-curve and most development time right now is going to revenue generation.
And if you do need to hire back, you don’t need to hire from HCOL areas. Make the position full remote and price the salary to a LCOL area. You don’t need to pay a Bay Area wage any more.
lol you think those fucking idiots will go back to remote work? they’ve spent every year since covid trying to force everyone back into the office.
They will for new hires when they can pay them 50%.
I think many CEOs will see it that way. Better to underhire and ride their slop code base into further customer loss, data breaches, lawsuits and bankruptcy, than put up a weak quarter while something can still be done to save the business.
Has any data breach ever significantly hurt a company financially?
Hard to say, for sure, in each case. There’s often plenty of factors that could have been key. Fuck-ups tend to fuck up in a variety of interesting ways.
An obvious seeming one is Roomba’s infamous leaked person-on-toilet picture. I didn’t stop buying Roomba because I doubted their engineering. It was their (lack of a) Privacy team.