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> I really feel like current salaries are too much to bear for honchos of the industry and that there's been a recent push to make it seem like "programming is
by Joeri 10y ago
> I really feel like current salaries are too much to bear for honchos of the industry and that there's been a recent push to make it seem like "programming is easy" and "everybody can take up code".
Salaries are too high from the perspective of many executives because they have the programmers doing low-value work. Instead of carefully considering what merits building they just have them build everything and then see what sticks and what doesn't.
If programmers were paid like executives, they would only be asked to write code that made a clear difference towards a company's bottom line. Much thought would go into the decision-making and preparation process before code was written to make sure that both problem and solution were appropriate and well understood. You would have whole fields of lower-wage analysts whose job it was to prepare the work of the programmer. There would be much less code written, but the code that was written would be much more valuable.
- jakobegger 10y agoIf you want to be paid like an executive, you need to behave like an executive. Programmers that just do what they are told will never be treated like an executive. Instead of doing duplicate pointless work, tell your superiors what they really want and do that. If you just implement whatever someone else tells you to do, you are a coding monkey, not a programmer. Stop dreaming of 'low wage analysts' that do the dirty work for you, and just do it. Programmers need to take more responsibilities rather than less; after all, who can understand the project better than the programmer who creates it?
- cdcarter 10y agoYou have described a hypothetical where programmers are even more costly AND there are "whole fields of lower-wage analysts". This seems like a LOT more cost for the general contractor who is growing and needs a little bit of customized data entry.