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dasil003 on April 3, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Sell Excellence

The paradox is that if you are focused on how to make the most money to the point that you are choosing your programming language based on estimated market value, you are likely not the caliber of developer that the top-tier tech companies are looking for. In other words, you can probably make $150k under an insufferable pointy-hair at any Fortune 500 company, but you won't get to work on cool stuff at Google or Facebook for $250k.

JamesBarney on April 4, 2015 [–]

If great engineers didn't care about money Facebook and Google wouldn't have to pay them 250k :).

dasil003 on April 4, 2015 | [–]

Who said anything about not caring? It's about making technical decisions based on money.

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