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Until recently, the fact that the worst Java-speaking engineer in the room got a 50% yearly pay raise and that annual turnovers among engineering staff were close to 50% rather sharply limited the desire of technically inclined founders to start companies and their ability to retain talent.

In the last three years, the company my day job works through has burned through, oh, call it 5 PLs on the team that I manage, and about 100 engineers. Fully staffed strength for that team is below 30.

This is a constant bugbear for us and annoys my company more than every other issue we've had with India save one. (The biggie, hopefully not applicable to startups.)



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