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Re:Intuit asked Mailchimp employees to pay medical costs out... by chrisseaton on Monday April 11, 2022 @05:17PM (#30995198)
> and you hire as many as you can within your budget

If you believe this then what's your explanation for why Google hires a smaller number of expensive engineers, rather than a larger number of cheaper engineers? They could hire 10x if they went for only lower-tier college new-grads!

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Re:Intuit asked Mailchimp employees to pay medical costs out... by zaroth on Monday April 11, 2022 @10:26PM (#30997887)
Sorry if I missed the word “qualified” - I felt it was presumed by the word “hired”.

Obviously a business would not be particularly successful hiring janitors to write code simply because they could pay them less.

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Re:Intuit asked Mailchimp employees to pay medical costs out... by lbotos on Monday April 11, 2022 @10:54PM (#30998037)
Google is budgeting for more expensive engineers, so they end up hiring less.
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