Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay

Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by Retric on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @03:11PM (#12212457)

This assumes the opportunity's to generate 1.5m in value are finite and all developers are equivalent. Both are rather sketchy assumptions. I might have a 1% chance of preforming an amputation successfully. But, the people with an 90% chancing of doing the same are worth vastly more.

Out of 100 developers 10 might save you 1.5million and getting the correct 2 might save you 3 million.

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Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by clem on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @03:15PM (#12212485)

But what the patient really needed was an appendectomy.

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Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by Retric on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @03:37PM (#12212674)

Not sure your point. A heart surgeon has much better odds of doing an appendectomy than I do. Further, while doctor and programmer can do a range of things a specialist is a much smaller pool.

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