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Re:We Only Hire the Best by arethuza on Monday May 23, 2016 @12:31PM (#11754895)
"The counter-point is that without something to sell"

Never met a salesperson who was deterred from selling something by the trivial detail that it doesn't actually exist. ;-)

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Re:We Only Hire the Best by FireBeyond on Monday May 23, 2016 @12:45PM (#11754997)
"Sir, I promised the client that it would have Feature X, and the developers are refusing, saying it will take too long!"
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Re:We Only Hire the Best by compactmani on Monday May 23, 2016 @12:55PM (#11755059)
This is consistent with my impression of how sales work. You sell a feature, product, capability, etc that won't be ready for at least 6 months (for example). Then you kindly encourage an engineer to build it.
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Re:We Only Hire the Best by joncrocks on Monday May 23, 2016 @12:42PM (#11754970)
Heh, "But it could, theoretically exist right?"
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