> Very few companies make more than a million per employee. Yeah, and they hire a whole lot of programmers, which is where the top prices come from. > Almost

> Very few companies make more than a million per employee. Yeah, and they hire a whole lot of programmers, which is where the top prices come from. > Almost every tech company I have researched (I worked as an equity analyst for a decade) is massively overstaffed. Well it is very directly the reason I have heard given for the process of always hiring everyone that passes the filter without regard to old fashioned concepts as "job openings".