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Matter of scale. A team of engineers working on building a Dutch marketplace has a potential customer base of 18 million. An American company doing the same can
by adflux 5y ago
Matter of scale. A team of engineers working on building a Dutch marketplace has a potential customer base of 18 million. An American company doing the same can reach 300 million. Assuming equal complexity, the American engineer can deliver far more value because his target audience is much larger.
Scale can be like a force multiplier for engineers. Makes them deliver more value and employers are able to pay them more.
- bosie 5y agoWhat is value in this context though? Seems for Google the value is actual money and for a startup it is a potential future earning? Yet the startup developer in San Francisco is still (presumably) paid 200k or more? If that startup fails, was the developer overvalued?
- CryptoBanker 5y agoNo, it just means the startup's investors made a bad bet
- bosie 5y agoIf you use scaling up as an argument for paying a higher salary, wouldn’t scaling down do the same but in the opposite direction?