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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by JamesBarney on Sunday April 30, 2017 @08:37PM (#14234750)
In other news, every employer under the sun complains there aren't enough qualified developers.
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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by jackyinger on Sunday April 30, 2017 @09:11PM (#14234859)
You can be sure that they want more supply in the market to drive down cost! I think it's safe to say that developers are pretty expensive as far as individual contributors go. Especially good ones.
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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by jacquesm on Sunday April 30, 2017 @10:29PM (#14235212)
Companies are perfecly happy paying their sales staff huge bonuses for 'value delivered', the fact that programmers are at the beginning of that value chain in many cases and bad at negotiation actually makes them cheap. Even the good ones.
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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by redblacktree on Monday May 01, 2017 @03:20PM (#14240596)
Good ones are spectacularly cheap. 10x developers are a real thing, but I've only very rarely heard of anyone who makes 10x salary as an individual contributor. Those folks are names most in this community would know.
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