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Re:Ask HN: What skills to acquire in 2019? by jacques_chester on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @08:19PM (#18766417)
> You spent 3-4 months honing your interview skills, that sounds very expensive.

Assuming a 25% pay bump, it more or less pays for itself in a year.

Not counting the effect of compounding. Bumps are typically by percent, so every point you chisel out early in your career is valuable.

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Re:Ask HN: What skills to acquire in 2019? by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @08:33PM (#18766500)
Assuming you couldn’t get that job any other way, sure. However, even most Googlers would think that is excessive (even if they did it themselves, most of them would not admit to it).
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