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"The only thing having a high profile company on your resume says is that you likely need a high salary"

- It might say that you have some experience that could save the new company a lot of money.

"It's just cheaper to higher the new CS grad for $80k year."

- $80k is only the debit side of the balance sheet so so "cheaper" is correct. But "more economical" might not be.




I don't disagree. You give hiring managers too much credit though.


I recently changed jobs, and most I realized companies are atrocious at hiring. I came from a bigger company that invests heavily in hiring. They spend tons of cash and employee time in activities to spur hiring, and it's the only place I've worked full time.

I found it a bit surprising that many other companies only do a few interviews, use only external recruiters and have never tried to do any form of publicity nor recruiting event.

Many of them had not even looked at my Github profile.




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