> I'm usually amazed at how much responsibility people are given who make over 6 figures, but yet how little decision power they are given. It's an interesting

> I'm usually amazed at how much responsibility people are given who make over 6 figures, but yet how little decision power they are given. It's an interesting distortion of the inflated tech-skill market I think. I have individual team members doing software who are paid more than entire group leaders doing other things but they are still very immature, and in no way can accept responsibility for more higher level things. I do agree about the responsibility / decision power point though. To me one of the most powerful motivating forces for tech people is giving them autonomy to make technical decisions themselves. It's somewhat tragic that this is so negative in the large - allow a whole team of engineers to each choose a different web stack and they'll love it, but you're in for a disaster.