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> Companies expect too much from their workers. (The below will be assuming software developer since you followed up talking about coders). In the US at least
by shados 7y ago
> Companies expect too much from their workers.
(The below will be assuming software developer since you followed up talking about coders).
In the US at least, there's an additional catch 22 because of salary. The average software engineer salary is super high, historically (at least in my experience) because it was compensating people for being oncall, for working off hours, for doing a mad dash to make deadlines in waterfall projects, for being understaffed, for needing to do continual education in your own time, etc.
Now that these super high salaries are the norm and you can't hire anyone with experience without such salaries, companies end up expecting the world from them. Other professions that have similar salary ranges (certain part of finance, law, health, etc) also do.
If salaries were more in line with other type of work (at least in the low end. Nothing wrong with having a wide range), it would be a bit less crazy for someone to work 9/5 and call it a day.
- JohnBooty 7y agoNow that these super high salaries are the norm and you can't hire anyone with experience without such salaries, companies end up expecting the world from them. Other professions that have similar salary ranges (certain part of finance, law, health, etc) also do. I honestly wish we could perform the labor version of a stock split and double the number of software engineering jobs and the number of qualified foks while halving the salaries. I would gladly do my current job for half of what I'm making now if I could work reduced hours. But no, it's the software industry. The options are generally "unemployment" or "make a bunch of money and work unhealthy hours until you want to die, and then get promoted and work even more" with nothing inbetween. There are exceptions to those norms, but the norms are the norm.
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