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To be clear, I don’t think you can blame these software engineers. Management has decided the average value of a tech lead to them is about 175K and they are ge
by benced 4y ago
To be clear, I don’t think you can blame these software engineers. Management has decided the average value of a tech lead to them is about 175K and they are getting that quality of engineer. I think their current tech issues suggest that the value management is placing on engineers is lower than it should be.
Like I said earlier in the thread - there are many bad engineers that are overpaid and many good engineers that are underpaid. On average though, compensation and quality are correlated. In the absence of additional information, compensation is the best metric we have to asses the quality of the underlying engineering talent. It also passes the sniff test - try using the Southwest Airlines app!
- scarface74 4y agoAgain, you are just as deep in your bubble as everyone else. There are 2.7 million developers in the US. The vast majority of them are paid between $80K-$170k. They are working in banks, government, smaller startups, etc. And it doesn’t take a $400K senior developer that can reverse a binary tree on the whiteboard while juggling bowling balls while riding a unicycle on a tightrope to make a mobile app. How much do you think Delta developers make in Atlanta (hint: they aren’t making over 200K). Their app is excellent. It never ceases to amaze me how little most people on HN know about compensation throughout the industry.