I have a wife, 2 kids and a dog.
I have a 15 years left on 20 year mortgage.
I live in California.
20K (or however much they pay engineers in India) just doesn't cut it!
HP will never reduce the price on their shit.
It's all about the bottom line. And that bottom line looks prettier when revenues stay constant and expenses are reduced.
Since I'm from Montreal, the word on the street has it that when EA opened up their game studio here a bit earlier this year, they had the intent of going after the premier gaming development talent in the city. Since Montreal does have an abudant talent pool in the area of game and 3D graphics development, some big name companies like Ubisoft would likely be the target of this corporate 'marauding'. IMO, I think it's good for the developers, but really bad for a company like Ubisoft, losing their top talent to a gaming gian like EA.
BTW, I don't know about you all, but from my experiences, 99% of 'tech' companies make their employees sign non-complete compete agreements, as well as intellectual property agreements. If you don't sign, you won't be hired! Simple as that. There are limits to the agreement, such as duration and distance as someone already mentioned. It's just a matter of them covering their asses, which is quite understandable. I was kind of shocked to read that some of you refused to sign that agreement.
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I have a wife, 2 kids and a dog. I have a 15 years left on 20 year mortgage. I live in California. 20K (or however much they pay engineers in India) just doesn't cut it!
HP will never reduce the price on their shit. It's all about the bottom line. And that bottom line looks prettier when revenues stay constant and expenses are reduced.
How can we compete when we are on an uneven playing field? North American cost of living is so much higher than that of India.
Who consumes most of that crap they churn out at HP anyways? I'm betting it's us North Americans!
Since I'm from Montreal, the word on the street has it that when EA opened up their game studio here a bit earlier this year, they had the intent of going after the premier gaming development talent in the city. Since Montreal does have an abudant talent pool in the area of game and 3D graphics development, some big name companies like Ubisoft would likely be the target of this corporate 'marauding'. IMO, I think it's good for the developers, but really bad for a company like Ubisoft, losing their top talent to a gaming gian like EA.
BTW, I don't know about you all, but from my experiences, 99% of 'tech' companies make their employees sign non-complete compete agreements, as well as intellectual property agreements. If you don't sign, you won't be hired! Simple as that. There are limits to the agreement, such as duration and distance as someone already mentioned. It's just a matter of them covering their asses, which is quite understandable. I was kind of shocked to read that some of you refused to sign that agreement.