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@joekinvi 45 mins quiet time before getting out of bed this morning. My calendar has been too jam packed to have one of those lately, just wake up early and fly out of bed. So grateful for quiet time

What are you grateful for today?

@_iamtpo Share the opportunities abeg

So much opportunities to make money right now but I’m not liquid to make those bets yet. Gotta lock in and increase my income man.

Woke up to “N1M+ net for a mid level role is low according to global standards”. I refuse to fall for rage bait this morning

@_iamtpo Been telling you, you need to open one already!

I want to run my own restaurant some day.

@dejixice @abfat_snr Getting interviews ≠ clearing the bar for every company. For a Snr frontend role at such company, the bar isn’t just frontend skills,it’s experience operating at scale (high-traffic systems, reliability, fintech constraints). Not every engineer has worked in such environment yet

@abfat_snr Thank you

😂😂😂

Sigh! Twitter is an interesting place

@Yinkaoke lol. In theory, yes. In practice, even “paying enough” doesn’t solve the supply constraint at that scale. Wanting to hire 2 or 3 solid engineers and paying them X rate to poach them from your competition is different from wanting to hire 100

@Lorelle___ No, because that's not how talent ecosystems operate. You either build them or pay enough to be able to poach from ppl who have built, you have to choose your poison.

How many Nigerians has Bloomberg hired and at what level? We’re mostly talking internships and entry-level roles, in small numbers. That’s very different from finding 500 experienced, high-bar hires locally.

@Yinkaoke I agree and we should be investing more in building talent pipelines so we don’t have this issue in 5 years. But that doesn’t make the CEO’s point wrong . It is tough to find that volume of high-bar talent in Nigeria right now between talent migration and gaps in depth.

@Lorelle___ You don't wake up one day & expect to have 500 high bar exp hires if you didn't train 1000 fresh grads in the laat 2-3 years (assuming the 500 openings are real). It's the reason banks do grad trainee every year because they know more than half will leave before the third year.

NG talent getting into global tech companies happens over time not 500 hires at once for a single company. If they had to hire 500 high-bar candidates from Naij right now, it would be tough, I know because I’ve tried. Plus a lot of that “global talent” is downlevelled when hired

@Babajiide 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

LinkedIn updated...

This conversation on talent and pay in the African ecosystem is a reoccurring one, and tbh both sides are probably right. A point we shouldn’t overlook is that many people don’t know what they should be paid. Was speaking with a friend who does recruiting for founders and startups in Africa and this is one of the biggest challenges in the ecosystem. Talents either undershoot or overshoot, based on pure vibes. Built something completely free to help solve that. Check out getband.fyi. It’s a tool that allows you to share and view compensation data anonymously. Nothing is linked or tracked back to you. You can share your compensation data and share with other people. Maybe we can start having different conversations when we get the data right.

@bigbrutha_ Absolutely!

Next year this topic go trend again, with even fewer talent available

@KendysonD Not really. That’s partly why we started GetBand getband.fyi, trying to make compensation less of a guessing game. Still early and the dataset is small, but that’s the goal.

Do we even have a pay band for what engineers should be earning in Nigeria today? I'm genuinely asking. If we do, I'm yet to see it. @seyedele @bsong_HR @Seamless_hr @DevcenterCo

@codebender_ Yes, still early. Help grow it so we can stop guessing salaries. Please add yours :)

@Lorelle___ @Babajiide Seen. Well done Still a very small set of data

Since we are talking about salary, whats a good salary range for; - Enrty level - mid level - senior level. ?

Just saw this super cool website by @Lorelle___ where you can share salaries anonymously. Click to share. getband.fyi

Some of my founder clients are definitely reading this and choosing silence… but if you’ve seen what we’ve seen in the trenches of hiring 😅. And it has nothing to do with compensation.

@codebender_ @Babajiide Fixed

@Lorelle___ @Babajiide There is a 500 error when getting salary data. You might want to take a look at that.

@The_Florencee Add your own too so we can know the ones that are paying less :)

You people that your companies are paying $3k and above and undisclosed, dm me 😔