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Stop tying compensation to seniority, and start giving it upon completion of tasks/improvement of business...?
by acct1771 8y ago
Stop tying compensation to seniority, and start giving it upon completion of tasks/improvement of business...?
- paganel 8y agoThe task thing is questionable, because that way you just create incentives for the people involved to introduce more (most of them un-needed) tasks into the system, tasks which will show up on the performance reviews as being completed. A lot of the senior guys solve un-created tasks, so to speak, by saying stuff like YAGNI or KISS or by eliminating potential bugs (future tasks) by pointing out that going a certain development route will create those bugs.
- LoSboccacc 8y ago> Stop tying compensation to seniority next, on hacker news: "why nobody makes children anymore"
- ThenAsNow 8y agoThere already is (and has been) knee-jerk reaction to this comment, but fundamentally I think your first clause represents territory that should be explored. I'm a huge believer in the value of retaining senior staff and making it part of their responsibility set to help mentor and develop more junior staff. However, if we take at face value the argument that it is too expensive to keep these people on staff, why not explore ideas that reduce how closely correlated compensation is to seniority rather than some measure of overall value across all dimensions of contribution?