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Why are developers NOT paid proportional to output? A 5x developer should get paid more than a 2x dev but that doesn't seem to happen
by billions 10y ago
Why are developers NOT paid proportional to output? A 5x developer should get paid more than a 2x dev but that doesn't seem to happen
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Why are developers NOT paid proportional to output? Because measuring business value of output of individual developers on a team is not easily done, and other output measures (e.g., SLOC) tend to be things that, if tied to pay, would create obvious adverse incentives.
- wccrawford 10y agoIndeed. I had an employer that told me my output was too low for the first few years. Then we had a security audit (following an event) and my code was the only code that came through squeaky clean. They didn't talk about the amount of my output after that. It's not easy to measure the value of someone's work, even years later, and certainly not immediately.
- etjossem 10y ago10x engineer: a developer who incurs technical debt so fast he appears more productive than the ten developers tasked with cleaning his mess up. [1] [1] http://10x.engineer http://10x.engineer
- maxxxxx 10y agoHow do you measure that? Most hard metrics like number of bugs fixed or lines of code are easily abused.
- FLUX-YOU 10y agoWhat do you do if you find a security exploit down the road that costs the company thousands but you already paid for his output?