> Well there's your problem. Valley pricing. You can get Sr Devs much cheaper than that. The article seems to be referring to how much agencies are hiring out

> Well there's your problem. Valley pricing. You can get Sr Devs much cheaper than that. The article seems to be referring to how much agencies are hiring out their senior developers for. Which, $190-300/hr. does not seem atypical in that scenario, even outside the valley. The developers themselves won't be making anywhere near that much. Since this company seemingly makes its money by having the senior developers doing billable work for clients, the article suggests that the business doesn't want them spending time helping junior developers and thus not billing (or, perhaps, billing at the junior rate).