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I have to wonder why these engineers are not paid millions of dollars per year. As a lowly backend dev this seems so much more impressive than my new API that r

• akomtu 3y ago
  Engineers are really poor negotiators, probably because they neglect "people skills".
  • ksec 3y ago
    Hardware Engineers are really poor negotiators.
  • flangola7 3y ago
    No need for the quotes, it's exactly the issue
  • rektide 3y ago
    Because their scales of what are important things are so often entirely unintelligible to the rest of the planet.
• jjtheblunt 3y ago
  perhaps they are, even if in stock share price appreciation?
• GuB-42 3y ago
  Because 10 engineers paid hundreds of thousands a year do a better job than 1 engineer paid millions. And that's because it is very high skill work, otherwise, it would have been 100 engineers paid tens of thousands.