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I still don’t get why you think that the budget for sharing productivity gains is strictly more bounded for software engineers than managers. I could flip your

I still don’t get why you think that the budget for sharing productivity gains is strictly more bounded for software engineers than managers. I could flip your example around. McDonald’s hopes to achieve value X from each of their managers and that’s what their willing to pay. But a software engineer who can increase retention rates can noticeably increase the value of the whole company. And that’s part of why one gets paid more than the other.

burntoutfire 6y ago
Modern software engineer is in most cases just a bricklayer - he just realises a vision of the business (product owner and his boss etc.). So, in your example, it's not the software engineer who increased retention rates, but rather the manager who thought of writing such improvement, and hired an engineer who then implemented it. In other words, the implementation is seen as a trivial part of the process, while figuring out what exactly to implement is seen as the core of the value creation.