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Comment by nnq

12 years ago

> well-fed farm animals

So you think that just paying a young grad $100k a year (which is a shitload of money by most European standards, but adjusting to your SV environment not that much) will just turn him into a well-fed far animal? will just put off their need to "break outside the matrix"? If you want most of your engineers to be mostly motivated by "hunger", you're doing something very wrong at one level or another!

$100k is beyond comfortable for everywhere in the Bay Area except SF. You can still spend ~$2700/mo on rent, and have money leftover for fun and savings. Hell, even in SF that will get you a pretty nice life.