Goddamnit do I hate this city sometimes. Considering stapling this to the face of the next person in Houston that bitches about not being able to find engineering talent.
EDIT:
I lost two really good potential hires once they passed the tech interview and then we decided we couldn't pay them...which is fine initially, but if we can't shed that mindset when our next round closes, I will be sad (and likely available).
If only there was some kind of proxy for salaries, some sort of thing we could offer in lieu of payment to potential employees, some kind of asset whose ownership we could offer with the expectation it'd be worth more later. Man, what a thing that could be.
EDIT:
I lost two really good potential hires once they passed the tech interview and then we decided we couldn't pay them...which is fine initially, but if we can't shed that mindset when our next round closes, I will be sad (and likely available).
If only there was some kind of proxy for salaries, some sort of thing we could offer in lieu of payment to potential employees, some kind of asset whose ownership we could offer with the expectation it'd be worth more later. Man, what a thing that could be.