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Number 2 is currently one of the most infuriating parts of trying to hire people at my company right now. I don't know how our recruiting wing handles the cognitive dissonance.

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Yeah that one always cracks me up. Every startup says "everyone here is really smart."

Everyone says that. So everyone is really smart. So it doesn't matter.

All the programmers in silicon valley are above average.

All the actors in Hollywood are above average.

All values greater than the mean are above average.

Well, that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.

Ha, I don't live on the West Coast.

"We lost another one to Apple!"

More accurately: "We lost another one to Apple... because they pay tip top of the market salaries."

The sad thing is that (in terms of base salary), they don't remotely pay tip top of the market in SV. So consider how bad it is to lose out to a giant mega-corp that only pays 80% of top of market salary.

Who is the current top? Netflix?

That I've seen, Netflix and VC firms.

I hear Facebook is higher.

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