Maybe companies wouldn't have much trouble recruiting engineers if they tried to lure us with, gasp, higher pay, and not just free drinks, video game nights, and vapid promises.
When companies stop treating devs as juveniles, or people who desire to work "on cool problems" without care for compensation (while those working in sales/business roles, and founders, sure care about making money), they'll have an easier time hiring.
At the other side of the table as a recruiter. Most people that aren't interested, state that they are working on critical projects / something incredibly interesting. Very few are the ones that state money is the main motivation. For highly skilled workers negotiating higher pay at their current company shouldn't be much of a problem if approached correctly.
One of the reasons employers want people motivated by the work is precisely because they will be harder to be lured away by pure compensation.
Side Advice: When interviewing, don't say the reason you want to work with a company is just because it's a prestiges company or higher pay. You are interviewing with your peers, not the HR department. Last thing teams want is to hire a person that isn't interested in their projects in the slightest.
I don't know about "most", but the target of most startups is definitely on the lower end of the age spectrum. It's easier pay and treat them worse, because they don't know any better and generally haven't sufficient experience to recognize that "the next big thing" they're working on isn't.
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Maybe companies wouldn't have much trouble recruiting engineers if they tried to lure us with, gasp, higher pay, and not just free drinks, video game nights, and vapid promises.
When companies stop treating devs as juveniles, or people who desire to work "on cool problems" without care for compensation (while those working in sales/business roles, and founders, sure care about making money), they'll have an easier time hiring.
At the other side of the table as a recruiter. Most people that aren't interested, state that they are working on critical projects / something incredibly interesting. Very few are the ones that state money is the main motivation. For highly skilled workers negotiating higher pay at their current company shouldn't be much of a problem if approached correctly.
One of the reasons employers want people motivated by the work is precisely because they will be harder to be lured away by pure compensation.
Side Advice: When interviewing, don't say the reason you want to work with a company is just because it's a prestiges company or higher pay. You are interviewing with your peers, not the HR department. Last thing teams want is to hire a person that isn't interested in their projects in the slightest.
"When companies stop treating devs as juveniles"
The problem, of course, is that most devs are juveniles. At least in startupland.
I don't know about "most", but the target of most startups is definitely on the lower end of the age spectrum. It's easier pay and treat them worse, because they don't know any better and generally haven't sufficient experience to recognize that "the next big thing" they're working on isn't.