On 9/8/2011 12:21 PM, Paul Peplinski wrote:
That is all true and good for situations you mention. The problem with that is when nearby companies do "market analysis" of wages it gets to be an infection that spreads quickly.
If someone is willing to disregard personal ethics, it would be interesting to provide work of a quality commensurate with the salary.
I once was hired as a consultant at an IVP, with a twenty year old product that suddenly had become unstable. It turns out they hired (in succession) two programmers with no apparent assembler or hardware experience; I found over a dozen MVC and CLC instructions where one of the operands was a character self-defining term (e.g., MVC FLAG,C'X'). And those were only the obvious errors.
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