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I get what you’re trying to say, but then how come frontend developers tend to get paid less than backend devs, who in turn get paid less than devops engineers?
by quicklime 5y ago
I get what you’re trying to say, but then how come frontend developers tend to get paid less than backend devs, who in turn get paid less than devops engineers?
- lelanthran 5y agoBecause front-end developers are the least visible to the CEO (the furthest away from the business data). Backend developers are a little bit closer to the business data than backend developers. Devops are even closer to the data that the CEO wants. The "visibility" is not "visibility relative to the product" but "visibility relative to the profit". If you draw the entire business as a series of concentric circles, with the circles representing the business, the centre of the circle (the heart of the business) is Accounting, the next layer would be HR, the next would be sales, then marketing, then maybe advertising, then product development... The only people less visible (further away from the business data) than the front-end devs are the data entry people.
- matwood 5y agoThere's also supply/demand in play. There are a lot of front-end devs out there. Normally when I see someone advertise themselves as full stack, they are backend heavy and can create passable front end code. Not often I see it the other way around which adds even more supply.