Would those "brightest minds" want to work for the current US government? Even if they did out of patriotism to the country, the Trump administration would have pushed them out by now and replaced with yes-men.

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0x3f 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The pay levels seem more of an inherent problem than the political winds.

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giantg2 12 hours ago | parent [-]

The people I know leaving that sector have been steadily leaving for years due to the day to day bullshit/internal politics and poor leadership that they have to put up with, not the pay nor current administration.

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0x3f 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Right but if you're a lifelong gov worker you are probably used to the pay, and it's hard to switch from gov work to startups or big tech (at least, I would see it as a thing to question). Whereas the GGP talks about people switching from the private sector (adtech, etc.) to public.

The first thing they are going to see is the salary and run a mile. That's partly why Palantir 'works'; they pay tech salaries and have a tech culture, but do gov work. Booz Allen et al were less advanced prototypes of that as well.

	▲	giantg2 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I know people who have switched to gov work despite the pay. Then they left due to the bullshit, without anything lined up.

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TiredOfLife 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They also didn't work under Biden and Obama.