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Every company seems to think it needs programmers who hit .408 in the major leagues. Maybe the problem is that they think making money is a zero-sum game like b
by pekk 14y ago
Every company seems to think it needs programmers who hit .408 in the major leagues. Maybe the problem is that they think making money is a zero-sum game like baseball, so that they have to have the "best team" and not just a team which can build what's necessary to make some money (not the most money, that would also be a game).
- thedufer 14y agoYou're assuming that 2 people hitting .200 are equivalent to one hitting .400. This isn't true in baseball, nor in software development. The competition is because the person hitting .400 is worth at least an order of magnitude more than a person hitting .200. The same discrepancy is not found in salaries, so you obviously prefer to hire from the top.