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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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