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Not OP, but 1 engineer -> 10M of benefit sounds right for my company. In terms of negotiation, it really depends on how differentiated your skills are. Short a
by Hermitian909 4y ago
Not OP, but 1 engineer -> 10M of benefit sounds right for my company.
In terms of negotiation, it really depends on how differentiated your skills are. Short answer is that if you can convince management that it would be difficult to find other engineers who could deliver the optimizations you're delivering, yes, you have leverage.
- pclmulqdq 4y agoThis is exactly right about negotiation and your skillset. I have seen performance engineers in the right place at the right time get 10-20% of their benefit to the company (I have seen both $1 million/year compensation for line workers and $10+ million/year for very senior folks). Very highly skilled engineers in specific niches can basically price themselves like monopolists, because the company can easily figure out how much money they are leaving on the table by not hiring them. This is not like "feature work" engineers, whose value is very nebulous and unknown.