[adt]

Indeed.

>One thing that programmers don’t care about. They don’t care about money, actually, unless you’re screwing up on the other things... You do have to pay competitively, but all said, of all the things that programmers look at in deciding where to work, as long as the salaries are basically fair, they will be surprisingly low on their list of considerations, and offering high salaries is a surprisingly ineffective tool in overcoming problems like the fact that programmers get 15″ monitors and salespeople yell at them all the time and the job involves making nuclear weapons out of baby seals. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/07/a-field-guide-to-d...

[itake]

I think programmers (especially post levels.fyi, r/careeradvice, and blind) care a lot more about TC than in 2006, but if people are upset about pay, they leave. They don't intentionally skip authentication steps as a silent protest for being paid lower than they want to.