> Besides, can we even attract experienced developers to a non-glamorous industry like logistics?
Yeah, if you're willing to pay slightly above market rates.
An acquaintance and former colleague of mine is in a very similar situation to you, working in logistics using a platform that's just terrible and causes the company a lot of stress and headaches. I offered to come on board, I have a proven track record of success in this space and could have fixed all their issues in probably six months.
But the company wasn't willing to pay the salary I was asking for, so I moved to a company who would. Apparently, they are not in this situation where they are getting bids of like $5MM and two years to complete a handful of data integrations and some dashboards.
I feel like leadership in "non-glamorous industries" do not like the idea of technical ICs commanding higher salaries than they do.
I feel this is pretty accurate. How much does the off the shelf solution cost? How big is their team? You can take that into account when pondering on a dollar amount that would actually get what you want done. I mirror mywittyname's sentiment. If you get the right person in there they can probably do it solo. But its going to be a large number that you are not going to like. Otherwise you can hire more, less qualified people, at a lower rate and end up with the same or worse result and it will take 10 times longer. E.g. probably the team the solution you are using now has.
Yeah, if you're willing to pay slightly above market rates.
An acquaintance and former colleague of mine is in a very similar situation to you, working in logistics using a platform that's just terrible and causes the company a lot of stress and headaches. I offered to come on board, I have a proven track record of success in this space and could have fixed all their issues in probably six months.
But the company wasn't willing to pay the salary I was asking for, so I moved to a company who would. Apparently, they are not in this situation where they are getting bids of like $5MM and two years to complete a handful of data integrations and some dashboards.
I feel like leadership in "non-glamorous industries" do not like the idea of technical ICs commanding higher salaries than they do.