> advantage to keep the same profit as them but negotiate a lower price. This increases your relative value in the hiring process.
That is how you negotiate when you’re struggling to find a job. By doing this you’re admitting that you’re not going to be as good as the high CoL candidate so you adjust your price to make your offer more attractive to the company. That’s a terrible position to put yourself in (but entirely understandable if you can’t get offers otherwise).
If you’ve passed the same bar and the company is truly fine with remote, there no reason to accept anything less than what they would pay a local. Speaking from experience in several tech companies in the bay, a proven remote employee is just as valuable as a local and getting decent software people is fucking hard.
It’s unlikely as a candidate that there is even any competition for the position you are filling (as in not multiple candidates that have passed the bar being picked over). Talking you into cost of living adjustments or whatever bullshit is just salary negotiation, not competition with other engineers.
Get multiple offers if you have to, but there is literally no reason a company willing to pay Bay Area salaries can’t pay that to a remote employee. Accepting less is just letting them convince you your labor isn’t as good as Bay Area SWE labor.
> That is how you negotiate when you’re struggling to find a job. By doing this you’re admitting that you’re not going to be as good as the high CoL candidate so you adjust your price to make your offer more attractive to the company. That’s a terrible position to put yourself in (but entirely understandable if you can’t get offers otherwise).
Yup. That's what i said.
If you see no reason to negotiate, why negotiate? Set your price at what your think your value is. Don't indulge COL requirements of another location.
> It’s unlikely as a candidate that there is even any competition for the position you are filling (as in not multiple candidates that have passed the bar being picked over). Talking you into cost of living adjustments or whatever bullshit is just salary negotiation, not competition with other engineers.
As someone who hires, i disagree. Every one of our hires has been a debate on expected output when compared to cost. But we're a fully remote company.
edit: Oh, and we're not flush with VC cash. We also can't afford any SF employees for this reason. We're much more willing to hire a junior engineer if their priced accordingly. Likewise, if we hired someone at $250k/y, we'd expect twice the output of him/her - and that's unlikely.
It is actually more than likely to get 2x the throughput when paying for better talent. The bottom of the talent pool is saturated with coasters who never invest in learning. I am seeing way more than 2x. There is also a cumulative factor when you get most of your employess in that caliber. Lastly, there is a limit on what a low talent pool can achieve regardless of the numbers. 1,000 people with my physics skill won't invent the theory of relativity. 10,000 coasters can't invent page rank.
I think it’s disingenuous to assume everyone in SF is commanding higher rates because they are all super talented and not coasters. There are definitely tons of undervalued engineers in poorer or lower cost areas being overlooked to do this fallacy.
Just because someone is charging $200k doesn’t mean they are worth it.
Companies previously established artificial constraints such as colocation that forced higher salaries. If colocation is no longer a requirement, it’s only natural the associated premium is going away. That is, if you want the benefit of living in, say India, then you’ll also have to incur the cost of competing against someone like Ramanujan (famous mathematician) rather than whoever just happens to be within commuting distance of Mountain View.
That is how you negotiate when you’re struggling to find a job. By doing this you’re admitting that you’re not going to be as good as the high CoL candidate so you adjust your price to make your offer more attractive to the company. That’s a terrible position to put yourself in (but entirely understandable if you can’t get offers otherwise).
If you’ve passed the same bar and the company is truly fine with remote, there no reason to accept anything less than what they would pay a local. Speaking from experience in several tech companies in the bay, a proven remote employee is just as valuable as a local and getting decent software people is fucking hard.
It’s unlikely as a candidate that there is even any competition for the position you are filling (as in not multiple candidates that have passed the bar being picked over). Talking you into cost of living adjustments or whatever bullshit is just salary negotiation, not competition with other engineers.
Get multiple offers if you have to, but there is literally no reason a company willing to pay Bay Area salaries can’t pay that to a remote employee. Accepting less is just letting them convince you your labor isn’t as good as Bay Area SWE labor.