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Aren't most developers in the world paid a salary or day rate and thus are paid for their time? What incentive is there for them to "hurry up" rather than sandb
by marklit 6y ago
Aren't most developers in the world paid a salary or day rate and thus are paid for their time? What incentive is there for them to "hurry up" rather than sandbag?
- ohadron 6y agoI want to say stock options, but I don’t really think it achieves this goal.
- fxtentacle 6y agoI concur. Stocks are too far away from the actual software. The CEOs stupid pet project might well ruin the company's financials, even though all of the engineers on the core team did a fantastic and highly profitable job. So stocks are more bets on the CEOs performance than on the engineers'.
- fxtentacle 6y agoPlus they usually get no financial compensation for the extra work of making things work well. There's a minimum quality level required to not get fired, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's exactly what most employees deliver.
- mrwoggle 6y agoOf course, why go through the troubles of putting in the extra hours, if there is no financial compensation or appreciation? Personally, I would just optimize stuff or propose new features for a product if I would learn something/gain experience out of it.
- errantmind 6y agoAgreed. I would go further and say that is true of any salaried employee who has no significant stake in the business