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"There was no notion of pager duty -- you just always wore a pager." So how much did that pay?

• sevensor 8y ago
  Enough to get me to sign up straight out of school, but not enough to keep me there forever. Their pay scale is pretty generous out of the gate, but it's also pretty flat. The longer you stay, the worse off you are. Attrition in my cohort was about 40% per year.
  • mcguire 8y ago
    I'd imagine that for the engineers, that's not good.
    • deathanatos 8y ago
      That feels (to me) about normal for engineering though; I feel like a lot of engineers tend to stay for around 2-3 years; roughly, ~40% percent per year turnover? Not that this is necessarily a good thing. I feel like most of the turnover is completely preventable, should the employer want to actually keep employees for longer than 2-3 years…
    • sevensor 8y ago
      It wasn't good at that factory, to be sure. I'd estimate that engineers were costing the company money on balance for the first year and a half of their employment -- there was a lot to learn about the process, how the factory ran, working with other departments, and so forth. Bad engineering decisions were very expensive. So when you have a pool of engineers who are mostly too inexperienced to make good decisions, a lot of bad decisions get made. Given the attrition rate, about 50% of engineers were running around making bad decisions, or no decisions at all, at any given time.