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There's actually a practical case study in this. Epic Systems, which uses MUMPS, is reasonably well known for hiring naive college grads, teaching them MUMPS, and then exploiting the crap out of them.


Also while doing it in Madison, Wisconsin (not too many other large employers for programmers), and with a 1 year non-compete on Epic software.

So if they leave the company, they probably have to leave town and learn something totally new.

(All those, and more, are the reasons I decided not to go to an on-site interview with them after invited.)




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