Hiring a Developer? Do not stinge as you almost always get what you paid for.
Good things cost money. Not everything expensive may be good, sure. But, I truly believe a good resource is surely worth their price.
The speaker begins by describing their pleasant experience at Reston Town Center after a year-long absence, highlighting the changes and recommending a new store called Playa Bowl. They share their positive impressions of the fruit bowls despite the relatively high price, leading to reflections on the correlation between quality and cost, extending the analogy to hiring practices, particularly in engineering. The speaker emphasizes the importance of recognizing and compensating talent appropriately.
Summary
Review of Playa Bowl:
Positive review of Playa Bowl, emphasizing the quality of the food
Acknowledgment of the high price but justification of the expense for quality
General reflection on the correlation between quality and price in goods and services
Comparison to Hiring Engineers:
Extension of the quality-price discussion to hiring engineers
Emphasis on the importance of paying for quality resources, particularly engineers
Discouragement of negotiating lower rates as it may deter talented candidates
Personal anecdote about not negotiating as an engineer
Advice for Career Development:
Encouragement for individuals to know their worth and demand fair compensation
Assertion that skills, commitment, and credibility justify one’s asking price
Empowerment of individuals, especially in early career stages, to trust their abilities
Podcast
Transcript
0:01
Hey there, hope you’re doing well. We’re in Reston Town Center today. The weather’s like absolutely gorgeous, like low 70s and even been here in a while. Actually, it’s over a year now. So it’s our first time back here. So we there’s, there’s lots of changes, right? There’s a new store, plenty of stores that are not there that used to be there, but there’s a new one called Playa Bowl.
0:22
And if you haven’t checked that one out, and if there’s one in your neighborhood, I strongly recommend that you do. So it’s actually pretty good. I don’t want to scary. OK. It’s it’s actually very good. It’s it’s a fruit store. I mean, not a fruit store, but they know they make these bowls with fruits and akai and all of those kinds of products.
0:38
I love fruits, I love fruits and I love honey. This one has like no other juice. It’s, I think mostly fruits and honey. I really liked it. I’ll add a video and a photo so you can check it out. But you know, it got me thinking. It’s like $11.00 for the bowl.
0:54
It’s actually quite expensive, right? But you know, rest in town. It is not one of the cheaper places. I like these kinds of stores and most of them charge somewhere around between 8:00 to $12.00 or so. But it is expensive. It’s, it’s a meal. Yeah, you can take a look at it there. I finished most of it, but I had some videos.
1:11
It is a meal, but it’s, it’s a pricey meal, right? I mean, it is not. I mean, it is right for a for a bowl of fruit if you look at it that way. But it’s actually pretty good. And here’s what I want to say. Good stuff is generally expensive. It’s not cheap. At least that’s what I’ve seen. So if you want good stuff, you got to pay for it because there’s nothing, I don’t believe there’s anything called a deal because if it’s a deal, it means it’s only worth that much and there’s some fine print.
1:34
So if you feel like you got a deal, I mean, don’t fool yourself, right? There are items are worth what they presented for the most part. You could agree or disagree. And obviously it’s not always true, but a lot of times I think if someone’s charging a certain amount of money, it means that they do believe it’s it’s it’s worth that money.
1:51
And if they if their belief is wrong, they’re going to go out of business soon. If they do not go out of business, that means there is some justification to their belief or the trust factor, right? Same thing. If you extrapolate that theory to engineers, it’s the same thing I think to find good engineers. I think engineers because that’s what I do for a living.
2:08
But you know it, it applies to all kinds of, you know, all types of jobs, right? But you get the idea. So if you want a good engineer, you got to pay for them. You try to haggle, negotiate and bring their prices or rates down. You’re just not going to find the people that you may want to find in the 1st place.
2:24
So this is what I tell folks when I when I talk to people, you know, when people know what they’re worth and if they’re expecting something, if it’s reasonable, I think you shouldn’t stinge. You should probably pay them what they believe they’re worth as long as you can afford it. Because you’re going to get your money’s worth very soon, right?
2:41
It’s very hard to find good resources, anything. When you find somebody that’s good, who’s good, you definitely want to do your best in keeping them. I see that more often than not, it doesn’t happen. I mean, not more often. I mean, I’ve seen it happen in most cases, but not so much in other cases. And even when I have, you know, interviewed and some people try to, I’m not saying I’m the best engineer, but I’m a decent one.
3:01
I want to believe, but you know, I don’t. I never negotiated. I think some, most people don’t like to do it. But if you’re in the earlier stages of your career, you might feel the pressure to have want to do it, but please hold, you know, trust your abilities. If you feel you’re committed, you’re credible, you have the skills, and you feel like you can pick up skills that you don’t have, then you’re worth every dollar that you’re demanding, right?
3:23
Or requesting whatever the right word is. So this bowl pliable? Check it out. But it just got me to make this video. Hope you’re having a wonderful day as well. It’s just absolutely beautiful here. And if you now have, if you haven’t already signed up, make sure you sign up on snowpal.com.
3:41
Manage your projects more efficiently, better. We have a very rich horizontal platform and then a number of vertical services. We have a few already and we’re working reactively on building others. We are free at this point, but we should be out of beta very shortly because we we are pretty stable.
3:58
We’ve been stable for the most part from the beginning. But like everybody else, excuse me, we had our share of bugs and improvements that we had to make, but we’ve done a lot of them at this point and I think it’s in pretty good shape. So definitely check it out, download our app from the App Store and Play Store and and be organized.
4:16
OK. Thanks. Bye, bye.
Snowpal Products
Backends as Services on AWS Marketplace
Mobile Apps on App Store and Play Store
Education Platform for Learners and Course Creators