Silicon valley talent wars engineers come get your 250k salary

Leaving a comment on my own submission here… unfortunately, I do think the title may give the impression that this is just another "boy do those engineers make the big bucks!" kind of story, which are common enough that I think a lot of people might just pass over this one.

I think this article is more interesting that than that - it actually presents aninteresting debate on whether it is a good business practice to pay high value engineers, especially at startups, salaries that are well above market rate. It includes discussion market salaries in the context of the very high cost of living (mortgage and child care) in SF, raising a family, and so forth. It also includes input from Sam Altman at ycombinator on the notion of high salaries creating a "mercenary" mentality that would not be good for early stage startups.

I avoid editorializing in the title field for HN, so I stuck with the published title. But if you're reading the comments first (as I often do), just want to mention that this may be a more interesting article than you'd realize from the title here.