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Or get the best of both worlds: Work at a company where engineers receive direct profit sharing for their contributions.
by meritt 8y ago
Or get the best of both worlds: Work at a company where engineers receive direct profit sharing for their contributions.
- henryfjordan 8y agoI'm having a hard time picturing this as anything but standard stock/option grants negotiated per employee. How do you correlate a particular individual's contributions to profit in software? And even if you could really understand how much value everyone was contributing, how would you ever keep a cooperative atmosphere? If me sharing a good idea with you potentially costs me money, I'm suddenly going to stop talking in meetings.
- meritt 8y agoMy company takes precisely this approach, though our business model (we sell data products) and size (we're quite small) definitely makes it easier. There are usually 1-2 employees (engineer and analyst) responsible for a given product so calculating their respective contribution and profit-sharing on a per-product basis is quite straightforward.