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From what I've seen, a lot of companies just flat out ignore the "back end" cost of recruiting/hiring/training. At my last job, I was working 60 - 80 hours/week. They refused to hire any help and I was the only one who understood the network at all. They ended up bringing on a contractor to help me out, but they said he wasn't allowed to have access to the existing network at all because he was just a contractor. I told them that was dumb, but they didn't want to budge.

Because I was working so much, I asked them for a $15k raise. They only gave me a $5k raise. So I quit.

Then when I quit, they wanted me to set aside my whole 2nd to last day to teach him how the network is set up. That's not the kind of thing you can learn in a day and we ended up having to drop everything at 10am because of an outage. They have about 3 network engineers now, but they've been churning through people.

I'm glad I left. The extra $15k still wouldn't have made it worth working 60 - 80 hours all the time.