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What does leverage mean in this context? The power to change company policies to better benefit SEs? The power to pick what products to bring to market? The pow
by claudiulodro 5y ago
What does leverage mean in this context? The power to change company policies to better benefit SEs? The power to pick what products to bring to market? The power to negotiate profit sharing as part of compensation? No, a random employed SE doesn't have that sort of leverage.
The only leverage an SE really has is asking for more money after they've delivered a lot of value -- it's not a lot of leverage, and it's conditional.
- justbored123 5y agoIt means the power to get a bigger piece of the pie. For example we made a quick calculation some time ago with a group of friends based on some numbers revealed by Accenture about how much they were charging a customer and we got to the conclusion that we, the devs creating the whole thing, were getting only 1% of what they were charging the customer. (Third world country with salaries below 1000 dollars)