High salaries often come with high expectations and low time to develop employees because of your high salary. The strangest thing I've noticed about my experi

High salaries often come with high expectations and low time to develop employees because of your high salary. The strangest thing I've noticed about my experience in the tech industry is the utter and complete disconnect between salary and expectations. I've worked for a wide gamut of firms, from startups with single-digit numbers of engineers to FAANG companies with thousands of engineers. I have never noticed a clear correlation between salary and expectations. The job where I was under the most pressure and where I had the most asked of me was actually my lowest paid position. I graduated in 2009, on the tail end of the financial crisis, and I counted myself fortunate to find a job at a local firm that was hiring. This was in the Midwest, so I counted myself fortunate to have a job offer at all, regardless of the salary. I very quickly found out why that firm was perpetually hiring. The work environment was so high pressure (and the wages so far below market rate, even during the recession) that people would leave as soon as they could find an opportunity (any opportunity) elsewhere. I held out for about 8 months before finding another role that paid significantly more and had significantly less expectations around how fast I would ship.