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stack ranking works in certain situations, doesn't work in others. If you pay way above average and don't have that many employees (ie, your needs relative to the population are low) you can usually get away with it. So, it works for the netflixes of the world. Amazon has moved away from it somewhat as they realizzed that they were running out of engineers to spam to hire.



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