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Yeah, I kind of regret posting that as it was snarkier than I intended and was undeservedly upvoted a lot. The article mentions young people several times and i

• rdouble 14y ago
  Younger engineer doesn't necessarily mean lower wages. There's so much funding in Silicon Valley, and such a talent crunch, that startup salaries are often on par with "real jobs" at established companies. In the first dot com boom, startup engineers were often paid sub par wages because much of the funding was allocated to expensive infrastructure and for-show C-level execs. These days, infrastructure is cheap and startups don't hire MBAs, so virtually all of the funding is earmarked for engineering salaries.