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Comment by guywithahat | Hacker News Reader

At the risk of minimizing your issue, are you sure you’re paying enough? Mid-level engineers cost ~130-140k (in Houston at least).

A few weeks ago I was talking to a hiring manager who found me on LinkedIn and was saying he had a hard time finding anyone. Turns out he was trying to pay 50-90k for a mid/senior developer who had machine learning and robotics experience. I didn’t take the interview

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The contradictions in this thread are incredible. If the job market is that bad and you need the money then a job that pays anything is good enough. Are these people just going to sit there until they starve because they're too proud to take a job that pays less than their last one?!

the tech talent is still safe, its "junior" level people that are struggling due to the "downturn" in tech. Probably when big tech fired people, lower level corpos took that talent at a small discount, putting pressure on lower level positions.

I mean it just varies from person to person and region to region. It doesn't change the fact that someone offering a wage well below market will never find anyone who's suitable as a mid level engineer, no matter the market. On the flip side, someone (like the author) who's waiting for a high paying executive position may struggle to find a position, even if it were a particularly strong job market.

I'd also argue you shouldn't jump on the first job you see. I was once offered 60k for a job in Austin, and if I had moved there to take such low pay it could have ruined my career. You should be thoughtful and reasonable about the roles you take

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