> Another problem is that the job while rewarding is not very lucrative. The chance of a multi million dollar payoff for an employee is low. I have a higher cha

> Another problem is that the job while rewarding is not very lucrative. The chance of a multi million dollar payoff for an employee is low. I have a higher chance working on a web connected gadget to become a millionaire. So that means it is really hard to recruit those who are top notch programmers who known how to figure out the algorithms, write the code, debug the hardware. Most new grads these days are interested in python, javascript and machine learning. That seems unfortunately true for most low-level infrastructure software. I am very good at those things, and have a medium amount of experience of building web software. Yet I can find a lot more jobs on the latter domain, and they probably won't pay worse (most likely even better). Besides pay the non-rewarding things in this domain are mostly that the high complexity is often not properly understood by management, rewarded or taken into account in planning. Which then leads to suboptimal products that have been delivered under time pressure.