Trouble Hiring? Create A Cult.

"There's no shortage of smart, hardworking engineers. There's a shortage of smart, hardworking engineers willing to work for very little money." ~ David "Pardo" Keppel<p>If you're having trouble hiring, it's probably because you're not paying enough. It turns out that talented people are worth paying a lot for.

Awesome article.<p>The two huge takeaways for me were:<p>1) Company-provided lunches aren't simply the value of the food -- it's the value of the bonding that can be created among co-workers. If people become friends then work isn't "just a job" anymore.<p>2) The workcation -- I'm rarely surprised by almost anything I read from startups anymore, and I've grown skeptical of founders as being psychologically manipulative of early hires in many ways, but this is truly a great and non-manipulative idea: Let's all go somewhere else and work some of the time and explore/play some of the time.<p>It's so good because so many people in the US are physically disparate from their families/people they need to visit. Even a fairly solid (by American standards) vacation of 3 weeks turns into a mandatory visiting of divorced parents (separate physical locations). This eats up vacation days like mad.<p>EDIT: drunken rambling