I think the expectation that I have random projects that I'm passionate about to be more disrespectful of my time. I have to compete against an unknown, I don't know what the other people interviewing will be doing for their projects so I have to try and make it more impressive than projects I don't even know about.
It's much less stressful and takes much less time to give me a basic to intermediate coding problem to solve on my own with a pre-set number of days/hours to work on it.
Just find the pharmaceuticals these greedy assholes are dependent on to stay alive, buy up the manufacturing rights, shut down production, and get rid of some of the world's problems. Could probably could get a kickstarter going, I'd donate.
>“What we’re seeing is not necessarily good for society, but it is rational behavior by these companies,” said Andrew Moore, the dean of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, who previously worked at Google. “They are anxious to ensure that they’ve got this small cohort of people” who can work on this technology."
I don't understand why paying employees crazy salaries would be bad for society, though they may not actually be crazy if you look at them as a function of housing costs - a physician in the right Midwest city can often afford 2 average priced homes on 1/year of salary.
Wish they could have expanded on this. It seems like an employee getting paid exorbitant amounts of money to actually produce a product, instead of being in management, an athlete, or an entertainer would be a fantastic thing!
Is it just scary for "society" (ie the upper class) that employees will realize it's possible to be paid exorbitant sums of money if they provide exorbitant levels of value?
Thank god we don't unionize (part of our salary might go to under qualified colleagues instead of under qualified executives...the horror).
My sister, a nurse, takes about a 20minutes-1hour phone call every time she needs a new position. That's it. Then she gets an answer. That is what being in an in-demand field with workers rights looks like (nurses tend to be (are all?) unionized). She also makes 6-figures in the bay area in her mid-20's with a bachelors from a no-name school.
But tech workers will shout down unions while it's currently feasible to make them. Unfortunately, when they finally realize they need them they will no longer have the leverage to unionize.
>What is the reason to not get a salary accordingly to my seniority, expertise and work output?
I've said this many times and will say it again, most people's salaries are more closely aligned with their leverage than their output. Now leverage can be value too, so it's a complicated picture to unpack and I won't get into it too much.
People who are benefitting more so from leverage (which tends to be the people with the best salaries) will HATE this move. Salary transparency would take away their leverage and they would have to focus more on their output to justify their high salaries.
I'm highly aware of what I don't know and often very keen on learning new things.
The only thing that makes me feel like an imposter is looking for a job and seeing insane requirements for something I'm pretty sure I could do with a Bachelors. Then I think, wait am I too stupid to know how incapable I am?
Money and an admission that everything we do is about money. Please don't make me gargle your "making the world a better place" cumshot, you are in it for money too and I'll respect you 10x more if you will just admit that.
It's not the hospital, it's the doctors and other healthcare workers that enable it...
see how easy it is to pass blame around? I see your point, but whose fault is it really? They couldn't charge that much if the health care workers didn't agree to it.
Depends how you look at it. I think rich people are more likely to look out for each other. You can often see this in the way our laws work, if the middle and lower classes are screwed over it's a huge fight to bring justice. But if rich people are screwed over, justice seems to come at a swift pace.
I think rich people treat rich people better and poor and middle classes tend to treat each other like trash but treat rich people like they are gods.
I've recently been talking to my therapost about this. I'm not sure there are many jobs where you can be an "ethical producer" under capitalism. It's a shit system that requires 10-20% (at least in the US) of people to be in poverty.
Even if every single person in the United States was capable of being a physician, we still would require 10-20% to work shitty jobs and live shitty lives. Yay America!
Several years ago when I last posted a review on there o tried to explicitly call out my director for several things. They first wouldn't allow me to post his name and after I removed that I still had too much "identifying information" that I had to remove before it accepted my post.
Your paid based on your leverage not how much your output is worth. If supply of workers with your skills goes up, your leverage to negotiate goes down and so does your wages.
Labor does not get to share in economic growth, they get to split an ever decreasing share of profits. The more people that are available to sell their labor, the more pieces that shrinking pie has to be cut into.
It's much less stressful and takes much less time to give me a basic to intermediate coding problem to solve on my own with a pre-set number of days/hours to work on it.