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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Back when, a co-worker at the bank I once worked for told me about IT conditions at then prominent distiller Seagrams, who used the Golden Handcuff technique. Seagrams paid $5K more to entry level programmers than anyone else, and got the pick of the litter. The new hires soon discovered the impossible deadlines, psychotic supervisors, and generally impossible working conditions, but they were already adjusted to their salary levels, and couldn't afford to take the pay cut they would incur if they quit and went elsewhere.
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Fortunately, I only live a tiny bit above what is needed at the minimum. I always live as if I have no money. Therefore, I once in a while have the ability to excessively splurge on stuff I want, but I can also live with a salary cut when switching to another employer, if need be.
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These days, I see a lot of job postings looking for combinations of knowledge and experience that make me say "Good luck getting half of that." And it's made worse by the job postings coming from HR, whose understanding of the job and the requirements is, um, imperfect.
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LOL yeah. Don't get me started on that one. They often want people who are able to write software starting at (almost) the bare metal in C (think programming microcontrollers), up to and including a web-based user interface to control said microcontroller (HTML5/CSS, Javascript/JQuery, PHP....) and everything in between. Oh, and of course, some Linux knowledge regarding building custom Debian Stable distro's and Windows Server knowledge to get everything hooked up and online is required as well.
And then you get the complaints: "We can't find anyone to fill our vacancies." No, of course not. A software engineer working on firmware/driver level, one working on user interface level, a network engineer and a Linux expert can NOT the same person and have all work done at the same quality level.
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Originally Posted by Blossom
He got a call about a state job so he has to call them tomorrow. This means he made it to interview stage. Things are looking up.
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Great! Good luck
