>In some cases, they died because they were paying above average wages in a misguided attempt to compete for the best of the best. It's not misguided. I've wo

>In some cases, they died because they were paying above average wages in a misguided attempt to compete for the best of the best. It's not misguided. I've worked in every size of company, from a <5-man startup to fortune 5 and the best developers I've ever worked with were at a mid-sized hedge fund. The work was relatively boring and the management was shockingly bad but the much higher pay brought in some really talented developers. The only reason the place didn't fold was because of the effort of these developers.