China Is Bombarding Tech Talent With Job Offers. The West Is Freaking Out.
China Is Bombarding Tech Talent With Job Offers. The West Is Freaking Out.
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Ah, the WSJ, bastion of level-headed reporting. Since I clicked through to the article and read the one paragraph us free-tier losers get (one more than the rest of you read) I know that it was Huawei trying to recruit semi-conductor manufacturing engineers from Germany.
So settle down, China isn't trying to pay you $240K a year to make wordpress sites for them, it's just another front in the ongoing microchip wars.
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Nooooo you can't give workers competitive offers for employment, you're supposed to collude to keep wages low! Actually competitive capitalism loses us money!
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As they should.
Money is the bottom line for your populace. We're the richest nation in history.
You lose your populace to the enemy over a few bucks thats on you.
This country is toast.
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Our fault for forcing money to be the end all be all of human existence
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China currently has a massive problem with youth unemployment and this is their plan?
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Would I have to work in China? If so, no thank you.
If not...
3x my salary you say?
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If I can work remotely I'm not against receiving a shitton of Chinese money.
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So, eh, were are those offers, so I can avoid looking at them? Specially C/C++ ones.
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So, time to lie on linkedin, pretend to be a senior engineer at some big company and wait for a Chinese offer
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Plot twist, they’ll only pay in combinations of yuan and rubles.
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Honestly, I'll take the barrel of sketchy oil.
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I’d take the job and keep my current one. Then I would put in the least effort possible to keep the Chinese job. The plan would be to take in as much pay as possible until they fire me.
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Why not do this to shitty US companies too? It's all the same.
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The only difference is my work reputation in the US matters more to me than in china . If I lost a job in china and tarnished my rep I wouldn’t give a single fuck. In the US it’s a bit different. Maybe not by much but still. Plus fuck china.
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Is it just a thing I've experienced in a Western country or don't tech types tend to lean on the social libertarian ideals including free speech? Because they may not care for China so much in that regard.
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Depends on the corner of the tech world I think. In FOSS circles, sure.
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The post is from .ee. it's not based in any reality. At best China might steal a few people from EU tech like Germany which is paid very little compared to the states. Comparing US tech and EU tech is foolish. The EU already knows it's in last place on a world technology scale.
Even in a podunk 300 person company you'll pretty consistently make 40-60k more than EU peers.
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Lololol yes, there is going to be an Exodus of 250k + stock salary techies leaving for China 👌👍🤣
.ee enough said.