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Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation by riskable on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @09:33AM (#12254337)
I'd put Luck and Nepotism at the top of the list followed by D. But maybe that's just because I work in finance.
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Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation by jomamaxx on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @09:54AM (#12254471)
To be fair, nepotism in tech tends to be of the academic type, and most kids who get into Ivy League have worked pretty hard to get there.

So, in some ways, it's not that bad a kind of nepotism.

Most startups are not hiring actual family members :)

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Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation by TeMPOraL on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @10:07AM (#12254552)
> Most startups are not hiring actual family members :)

It's harder to convince your own family to work for you for free with constant overtime and vague promises of great profits in the future. :).

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