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There's plenty of markets dominated by non-technical employers hiring programmers and they have no clue how to assess how good you are. Hence they all use poor
by crdoconnor 10y ago
There's plenty of markets dominated by non-technical employers hiring programmers and they have no clue how to assess how good you are.
Hence they all use poor rules of thumb and treat people like cogs. 1x and 10x developers get more or less the same offers.
Not a failure of negotiation. The only way to win that negotiation is to exit the market (if you even can).
- mixedCase 10y ago>Not a failure of negotiation. The only way to win that negotiation is to exit the market (if you even can). For non-technical people, you have to paint to the other person the picture of what's going to happen if you quit, and for him/her to realize that they do not understand the scope of what you do. It's not guaranteed to work, but that's just like every negotiation tactic out there.
- crdoconnor 10y agoTo look at it another way - assume you want to hire somebody and you have no idea what they do. How do you trust the picture of disaster that they're painting if you fire them? The answer is nearly always you have some (poor) rules of thumb and you're skeptical of the ones who say that they're 10x better than the rest.