I think he’s just saying that working in a shit environment is sometimes more harmful than underpaying them. Pay is important but it won’t always keep someone if the job is awful.

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They’ve been pulling leetcode questions designed to take a lot of thought and effort. They then expect people to get them in 10 minutes.

Unfortunately, I never got a degree so even when I can ace those questions, I’m really just there to fill their interview quota for the most part.

I’ve seen it get a lot of hate revently. In my experience, it’s mostly been from people upset they had to refactor their 400 line function or write unit tests.

Been with a lot of codebases that had no unit tests at all and everyone was afraid to change anything because the QA process could take weeks to months.

The result is you have a codebase that ages like milk.