> Especially in an industry like ours where even fair to decent coders can essentially write their own ticket. That's just not true. There are plenty of place

> Especially in an industry like ours where even fair to decent coders can essentially write their own ticket. That's just not true. There are plenty of places that do pay fairly (and a few that do interesting work), but the places that are truly "engineering-driven" (as opposed to driven by product management or marketing) are a few in between. These kinds of places (select few groups at Google, Palantir, places like Jane Street capital) are also enormously picky about who they hire (since engineers are responsible for a lot more than implementing a PRD with commercial/open-source components).