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Been doing this for 13 years, professionally and I see the same thing in the UK. I want to work for a company that doesn't think engineers are "lesser". We hav
by laputan_machine 3y ago
Been doing this for 13 years, professionally and I see the same thing in the UK. I want to work for a company that doesn't think engineers are "lesser".
We have PhD's in computer science, I have worked with people who have made significant contributions to the tooling of modern languages, and yet a manager who spends most of their time on eBay, Twitter or giving the same talk on "psychological safety" for the 15th time gets lauded? I don't get it.
I'm not a bucket crab, I don't want to drag people down, I just want the same opportunities people in other disciplines get (in the same industry!!)
- treprinum 3y agoGive up on UK/EU companies, they won't change. Work remotely for US companies. In many US companies managers are more like peers to engineers, with the same salary. In UK it's a two class system, managers are usually at least 2:1 against engineers comp-wise, including at Meta London.
- DanielHB 3y agoIn Sweden I often had a higher salary than my immediate manager. Only the "strategic" level management were really above engineers, mostly because they decided how resources get allocated and which projects need to be prioritised.