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by kraftman 2802 days ago
In the first case, if you think the person deserves the extra money and give it to them, you keep your best people. If other staff ask for the same, you can either give it to them if you think they deserve it, or risk losing them to elsewhere. The end result is you always keep your best staff, and potentially lose your worst staff.

The second scenario, you always keep your worst staff and you potentially lose your best staff.

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Maybe from company perspective, there’s no such thing as “10x engineers”, but only “1.02x engineers” at most.