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It sounds like we’ve had very different experiences but from what I’ve seen I think it depends more on the management / CEO than the company size. Some of the
by laumars 8y ago
It sounds like we’ve had very different experiences but from what I’ve seen I think it depends more on the management / CEO than the company size. Some of the smaller companies I’ve worked for have been worse than any of the larger companies and that was entirely down to the fact that the CEO saw the sales team as the money bringers because they scored the lucrative deals, where as the engineering team were seen as replaceable work horses.
But as I said, the best thing you can do in those sort of places is take the money and move on because you aren’t going to change the CEO’s attitude.
- koonsolo 8y agoChanging the CEO's attitude is indeed impossible, even with multiple people that he respects. If you are seen as a replaceable work horse, you lose a lot of leverage indeed. Here in Belgium there is a huge shortage of software developers, which places the programmers in a stronger position than the companies. I can leave a company and instantly get the same or a higher pay somewhere else. A company on the other hand, first has to find somebody, and then still overpay the first few months before the new employee becomes productive. From that point it's a bad position to be in.
- laumars 8y agoThere's definitely a shortage here as well. But that doesn't mean that a CEO has respect for the trade. My thinking is if a CEO comes from a sales background then they will run their company in that mindset. Much like how some CEOs who are developers sometimes struggle to release products because they're focused on the technology rather than the product (gross exaggeration there - but I hope you understand the point I'm making)