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by fuzztester 582 days ago
>This reminds of the corporate adage: "You can choose to invest in your people and run the risk that they leave, or you can choose not to invest in your people and run the risk that they stay".

Yes. I've seen it like this in a LinkedIn post:

CFO to CEO: What if we train our people, and they leave?

CEO to CFO: What if we don't train them, and they stay?

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My wife worked for a company that really trained their sales people. However, they also payed very poorly compared to their peers. So people would get trained stay for a year and then go to another company that was happy to such well trained employees and pay them better.
A charity running a company as the front.
Or any rural hospital
thats basically AWS
No, AWS is a bootcamp. A place to learn quickly, get hazed, and get out. Or, for the special few: become the drill sergeant.
echo $your_comment | sed 's/boot/concentration /’
There’s another option, spend huge amounts to hire the very best and don’t provide any training.

That’s what the top end hedge funds do with seven figure starting compensation.

That comp uaually iant gauranteed. Itsusually some decent base salary and a bonus based on some foemula around performance
It is practically guaranteed for all the prospective super geniuses working there for the first year, because the bar is set to be intentionally easy relative to their potential. Sometimes it is even literally guaranteed in writing for the most desirable hires.