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Ericson2314 on Jan 8, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Major union launches campaign to organize video ga...

> Only problem is, I don't see how you're going to get top engineers to join.

You appeal to their boredom. FAANG pays people to not compete more than anything. Rotation is a chance to break the monotony and actually be able to steer the ship for a change.

nitrogen on Jan 8, 2020 [–]

Engineers care about teams too though. Could a unionized software engineer choose to avoid or prefer people they do or don't work well with?

Ericson2314 on Jan 9, 2020 | [–]

Why not? Unions are restricted by law in funny ways, but I can't see why they would be constrained around this.

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