it's also not necessarily low salaries, but also possibly performance density. You can get a team of developers that have had the chaff whittled out under more

it's also not necessarily low salaries, but also possibly performance density. You can get a team of developers that have had the chaff whittled out under more of a boilerroom condition that the administrative structure of a larger company can't do (harder to get rid of unproductive programmers, e.g.)