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A comment on Yandex.Mail's successful migration from Oracle to Postgres [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:Yandex.Mail's successful migration from Oracle to Postgre... by elmigranto on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @03:11PM (#12491311)
> salaries and bonuses (even on C level) is too low in Russia to hide any amount of bribe in them

Let's say someone claims that their programmer genius Ivan saved a company ~1m USD/year with latest commit; and awards him $100k. And you see this unusual bonus, how are you going to know 99% of that doesn't go to someone other than Ivan?

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Re:Yandex.Mail's successful migration from Oracle to Postgre... by bobuk on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @06:06AM (#12495405)
Typical Ivan with good developer skills costs $30k/year in Moscow. But you are right, theoretically it is possible to hide some money if you really wants to. As far as I know there's no big non-gov companies who spend something on bribes right now. May be it's because I too believe in humankind.
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