“Should” doesn’t really enter into it though. And in any case it’s impossible to attribute impact in that way since the money tends to come from a few huge eng

“Should” doesn’t really enter into it though. And in any case it’s impossible to attribute impact in that way since the money tends to come from a few huge engines that are not sensitive to individual hires. At the end of the day, tech salaries are a market like any other—driven by what competitors are willing to pay, not by what is “fair”