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Paying one developer more simply because they're better at negotiating isn't fair either. As is, we really don't have good ways of determining one developer is

• sokoloff 10y ago
  But you know it when you see the outliers, right? You know who you'd want to go form a 3-person highly technical startup with. You know who else you'd never want to work with if your personal livelihood depending on them performing in a crunch. I admit that I can't judge who is 10 or 20% better than another developer. I can tell who the 5-10x outliers are. Maybe under other circumstances or at other companies different people would shine, but I'm at this company and under these circumstances.