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Re:Is developer compensation becoming bimodal? by coredog64 on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @10:10AM (#12589674)
There's actually a practical case study in this. Epic Systems, which uses MUMPS, is reasonably well known for hiring naive college grads, teaching them MUMPS, and then exploiting the crap out of them.
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Re:Is developer compensation becoming bimodal? by tuna-piano on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @10:59AM (#12590061)
Also while doing it in Madison, Wisconsin (not too many other large employers for programmers), and with a 1 year non-compete on Epic software.

So if they leave the company, they probably have to leave town and learn something totally new.

(All those, and more, are the reasons I decided not to go to an on-site interview with them after invited.)

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