Salary had a very weak relationship with Coding War Games performance, and the above-median salary half earned less than 10 percent more while performing nearly twice as well.

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"Salary had a very weak relationship with Coding War Games performance, and the above-median salary half earned less than 10 percent more while performing nearly twice as well."

The Coding War Games analysis reports wide salary variation, a very weak salary-performance relationship, and the stated comparison between the two salary halves.

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Source title Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 3rd edition

Source authors Tom DeMarco; Tim Lister

Source year 2013

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