[Gllug] VACANCY: Site Reliability Engineering

[Jose Luis Martinez]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Jose Luis Martinez wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Jose Luis Martinez wrote:
>>>
>>>> Mates of mine have taken salary cuts of more less that size when
>>>> finding new jobs.
>>>>
>>>> It is not only the swathes of people that have lost their jobs, it is
>>>> also the downwards pressure on salaries due to people working remotely
>>>> from other countries and outright outsourcing :-(
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Why would anyone take a pay cut if you didn't have to, unless you job
>>> was threatened or you were made redundant...
>>>
>>> I thought the whole point of changing jobs was to get a better rate...
>>>
>>>
>>
>> That is may point, the market conditions are pretty dire...
>>
>
> That was also my point though, if you don't need to change jobs and if
> you don't get offered the salary increase you want, then just stay put.
>
> I was thinking of switching jobs but then Lehman Brothers collapsed...
> looks like I waited too long, so now I'm sitting back, will take a good
> opportunity if it comes along, but otherwise I'm in no rush, I can
> simply wait until the market recovers.
>
> I suspect a lot of other people with jobs will do the same and wait it out.
>

Redundancies mate. They put some people in the back foot, sometimes
the reasons you have to accept a lower salary have nothing to do with
your technical ability.
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