It's like the tides have changed. I want to know what the hiring company is offering to make a switch attractive.
I voiced my opinions on it, changed my life around because of COVID, and they still seemed surprised when I gave them my 2 weeks.
I would have likely stayed if I got the approval to continue to work at home.
I’d say the extra ~10 hours of work over the month for it was worth it. It always is.
The US software industry might be at another inflection point where in order to recruit senior roles, salaries have to move up significantly. Sure there are other factors candidates consider but changing tech stack, culture, process, etc. is much harder to do if those things are a problem. In contrast to those things, paying more is easier to do and that is even considering how hard it is to get approvals/budget as well as fairness with existing staff.
If you just send me some test I will refuse to do it. If I have a technical interview with someone, I hope they're truly looking to see how I think instead of if I grind leet code....
It's truly exhausting to apply to companies and do their dance in 2021.
Smaller companies followed without being able to compete on TC. Now although some percentage of people go through interview torture every year a really big percentage of my peers and friends don't do that because it is a pain.
Big companies won in keeping the talent for less. Smaller companies lost because they blindly followed.
It helps that my current company is 100% remote and has been for three years now, since they got rid of our office before anyone knew there would be a pandemic.
Also now it's looking like most companies are itching to get people back in the office, and I'm not wanting that, in part since it would likely require me to move since I live outside of Chicago.