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Which while cool, is not the norm. Anecdotes don't counter that.

Yeah, but the claim was:

> Companies never give substantial raises to current employees.

and a single counterexample is enough to counter it.

If you're being super pedantic, sure, but... as far as the typical developer/employee is concerned, it's not relevant.

Not to mention there seem to be several counter-examples in this thread