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Personally, I would love to build software that benefits people over shareholders. I’m great at what I do, and I want to put my talents to good use.

It’s just really hard to get behind an employer that pays their contractors more than their employees, and has such a strict raise policy. I’m not looking to make a ton of money, just a fair/average compensation and recognition for going the extra mile.

I don’t know what it takes to get a department to drop the GS scale (or at the very least match raises with inflation), but if it were to ever happen, I’m sure they would be flooded with talented and ambitious applications.