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How many people does an engineer making 400k have to manage?

• jacalata 10y ago
  None? Some companies have individual contributor tracks that end up as positions like "senior architect".
• dandandan 10y ago
  Ideally zero as they're on an "individual contributor" track where they're focused on engineering. They may have other people who they mentor but no direct reports.
• crdb 10y ago
  The first had a small team (< 5) of also highly paid senior developers like him to build and maintain a set of systems. I wouldn't call it "manage" so much as "coordinate colleagues". The second was working alone. In both cases the work was difficult to do, difficult to share across a team (solve a few hard problems well rather than cycle through hundreds of small JIRA tickets) and highly value adding for the company which is why they were willing to pay.