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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by jorblumesea on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @05:25PM (#18233418)
How many ex-military folks can pass the FB phone screen, let alone whiteboard? (How many software engineers, for that matter?)

For the military, where officers are making even less than a SDE 1 at Microsoft, this is insane amounts of money. Equivalent to 3 years of salary for NCO or enlisted.

I hate the "why doesn't X just become a software engineer" attitude.

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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by jonathankoren on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @05:57PM (#18233656)
Honestly, it's probably no different than anyone else controlling for skill set. They're just people.
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