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The same way anything is normalized. One person/company does something, posts the outcomes of it, then other people follow. I don't think many companies have te
by likeabbas 4y ago
The same way anything is normalized. One person/company does something, posts the outcomes of it, then other people follow. I don't think many companies have tested this logic out, as management style in tech is inherited from older corps.
I think this could have great benefits. If a manager's job salary is directly capped to the average of their ICs, then it's their benefit to make the best engineers and show that these engineers deserve an increase in salary - ergo the manager's salary is increased. At the same time, no one will be rushing to management just to get a salary bump.
- brookst 4y agoI still don't see how you beat the market-driven salary. Don't you have to pay market rate for good managers, and market rate for good IC's? If a company unilaterally cuts manager pay, they presumably won't get great managers, or at least not good managers who also want to be paid fairly. It also means managers will only want to manage more senior IC's, so as to benefit from the higher salary, while it's the junior IC's who need more capable management.
- lmm 4y agoYou could drop manager pay and accept that it will mean "worse" managers, and perhaps hope to make up the difference by using the savings to pay more for ICs and hope that this will get you "better" ICs and the result will be better team performance overall. I don't know how you'd ever make that change to a company structure though. The turkeys would have to vote for christmas.