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The problem with this argument is that programmers don’t work alone in a vacuum. How do you account for the support staff? The recruiter that hired you? The cle
by nightsd01 8y ago
The problem with this argument is that programmers don’t work alone in a vacuum. How do you account for the support staff? The recruiter that hired you? The cleaning lady? The DevOps people? And so on.
It’s avtually fairly non-trivial to be able to say with even a modicum of certainty how much value a given developer brings to their company.
- pmiller2 8y agoThis is precisely my point! Thank you for getting it and explaining it. I currently write software used by millions of people. Partly because I’m a backend engineer, I have no real idea how much more the company is making due to my direct efforts. Since they keep paying me, I’m assuming it’s a decent multiple of my carrying cost, but I have no way to measure it.