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Re:We Pay You to Learn to Code by humbleMouse on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:20PM (#19444401)
> Something about taking a cut of someone's salary doesn't feel right to me.

Ummm, that's how the whole tech industry works. Ever work for a recruiter? They're taking a cut of your salary.

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Re:We Pay You to Learn to Code by everdev on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:21PM (#19444428)
The company that hires you pays it, not you.
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Re:We Pay You to Learn to Code by tuesdayrain on Thursday March 21, 2019 @01:49PM (#19455207)
It's amusing that you believe there's a significant difference between those two scenarios.
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Re:We Pay You to Learn to Code by humbleMouse on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:26PM (#19444503)
How is it any different? Everybody is getting pimped out in this industry.
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Re:We Pay You to Learn to Code by everdev on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:44PM (#19444715)
It's multiple orders of magnitude different.

A company making a $100k/year hire might have $1M ARR. To them, the $15k commission is 1.5% of their annual budget. If the employee pays, it's 15% of their annual income. If recruiters charged 15% of a company's annual income no one would pay it, or it would bring a company to its knees.

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