And being the do the minimum person gets you put in the laid off/RIF category. Interestingly, I met up with an old coworker yesterday. We were discussing her ne

And being the do the minimum person gets you put in the laid off/RIF category. Interestingly, I met up with an old coworker yesterday. We were discussing her new job, she's a senior developer, and comp/pay came up. I was shocked to see her as a promoter of 'pay equity' and she mentioned advocating for it across the team. This is someone who is a talented programmer and could command way more comp than her "peers". I personally believe in the idea of 10x programmer, because I have personally worked with them. They don't have to be super senior either. I worked with a guy who pretty much wrote the entire backend of our web server and knew the entire networking stack. Like a network engineer and Java/JVM performance God in one. He was 4 years out of school. The guy was worth his weight in gold for this company. Pretty sure he was comped way outside of the band for that reason.