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This author is writing about a situation in which the employee is earning a fixed salary but his time is billed out on an hourly basis. That is very much a rec
by OldHand2018 6y ago
This author is writing about a situation in which the employee is earning a fixed salary but his time is billed out on an hourly basis. That is very much a recipe for abuse, and may well have been designed to be exploited from the very beginning.
I'm curious to know how common this employment situation is in engineering. Perhaps only in the large consulting firms? But... aren't annual bonuses supposed to compensate for the "extra" time?
- moron4hire 6y agoIt's every consulting firm. Given that consulting doesn't scale, I would not be surprised if consulting firms represented the majority of software engineering employment.
- OldHand2018 6y agoThat's a good point. And except in fixed-price contracts, there is no incentive to become more productive - they would rather you work more hours.
- moron4hire 6y agoI've also never worked at any consulting firm that gave an annual bonus, except for one, and it was a joke. I think I got $1.5k one year, after having worked 65hr weeks for the entire year (and some part time while I was supposed to be on family leave).