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How Hard Should Your Employer Work to Retain You?

Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. As Charlie Brown would say: “Good grief.” 🙄 This is an (incredibly!) extr…

For mid-level engineers this means making sure you are learning and expanding your skill sets, that you have access to mentorship and support systems, that you get to follow your curiosity to some extent and work on things that interest you. A lot of work goes into building and maintaining a system that can pass the sniff test in terms of compensating people fairly and equitably, instead of based on their negotiating skills or how much they made at their previous job. We had some intense conversations about why that was and what was missing, and realized he had been struggling to connect with the reasons behind what we were building, largely because he had never written or supported code in production during his time as a software engineer.

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