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It's not hard to recruit good developers. It's hard to recruit good developers without paying premium. Pay $1 billion/month and you'll recruit anyone. This is ad absurdum, but you've got idea. If you can pay high, of course it's easy to hire talented developers.

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I don't believe in paying good developers less than they are worth. I'm a CTO. I'm the developers evangelist inside my company. Their success is my success. Their happiness drives my KPIs. I'm not interested in saving a few bucks. I'm interested in getting the best talent I can. I have gone to the mat to fight for people's salary increases and asks many times and won. And it's always paid off (why I don't even have to ask permission for making high offers anymore). Good developers are usually worth significantly more than what they think they are and what they are happy to get paid.