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Re:Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-domina... by mech422 on Friday April 22, 2022 @02:42PM (#31126201)
>>Either you have a use for that - enough of a use that you're willing to pay for it - or you don't.

I think this is the crux of a lot of it. You only need one lead/rockstar/ninja/10x* for every 10-20 'developers'. And, as you said, there is always the fear they will leave tomorrow for 2x the money...

*) I wanna see 'evil genius' next! :-)

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Re:Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-domina... by weatherlite on Friday April 22, 2022 @02:57PM (#31126445)
> I think this is the crux of a lot of it. You only need one lead/rockstar/ninja/10x* for every 10-20 'developers'

I really disagree, ideally you'd have at least one in every team.

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Re:Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-domina... by mech422 on Friday April 22, 2022 @03:06PM (#31126582)
oh - I agree it would be nice... but very few places seem to do that. I've seen a lot of 'senior' people leading 3+ teams of junior/average developers.

edit: point being, if you can muddle thru - mgmt generally doesn't see it as a 'need' just an 'expense'

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