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Name the other axes, Seth. What are they? What else is there but money? With sufficient money you can fill your positions instantly with top talent. Anyone pre

Name the other axes, Seth. What are they? What else is there but money? With sufficient money you can fill your positions instantly with top talent. Anyone pretending there are other answers is probably guilty of lowballing, wanting to lowball or the English translation of my name: a grape fox.

tester457 3y ago
Another axis is purple
quickthrower2 3y ago
Career prospects are another axis I would say.
- avery17 3y ago
  That's just money with extra steps.
  - quickthrower2 3y ago
    It is power with money as a side effect. An important distinction. Say you go broke or get divorced or whatever, the experience and connections help you get back on your feet.
jeltz 3y ago
Great team members. That one is very important too.
AceJohnny2 3y ago
Work-life balance. Job perks. Working on projects that you consider valuable. Non-profits are particularly good at that last point.
- captainbland 3y ago
  > Working on projects that you consider valuable. Sometimes I imagine all the very wealthy people thinking about where to allocate their capital like "hm, hiring more people to do computational cancer research? nah. Let's try and invalidate people's insurance claims through their ad clicks instead."
  - asadotzler 3y ago
    Most corporations with any power are sociopathic institutions run by sociopaths competing with other similar corporations on who accumulate and deploy the most power. Punching down is always more lucrative than punching up and you don't change things or have breakthroughs without at least a little punching up. As you noted, that rarely happens because it's simply easier and more lucrative to fuck people over.
ghaff 3y ago
It's really not beyond a certain level. Maybe it mostly is for entry-level but tons of people don't exclusively focus on highest comp.
kevinmchugh 3y ago
Equity? If you have the choice of a million dollars in salary and 100,000 shares or 1.1 million in salary and 50,000 shares, probably you should take the lower salary
lanstin 3y ago
autonomy is a big one for some people. respect. influence/power. As a software engineer I have left jobs because the total traffic was too low, and I was addicted to 10^9 and the like numbers in my counters. Additional salary is ok, but it functionally just means I waste more or less money before having to rein it in. If I saw really rich people doing more awesome stuff with their moneys, I might think otherwise, but having a Lambo or a house so large my kids would be less able to relate to people in general doesn't seem that useful. Get used to luxry clothes instead of my somewhat scruffy true style
1-more 3y ago
A big one as a developer is internal investment. Who works on internal tooling and infrastructure? How robust is the CI/CD pipeline? How much of an event is it when a deploy happens?

tester457 3y ago

Another axis is purple

quickthrower2 3y ago

Career prospects are another axis I would say.

avery17 3y ago
That's just money with extra steps.
- quickthrower2 3y ago
  It is power with money as a side effect. An important distinction. Say you go broke or get divorced or whatever, the experience and connections help you get back on your feet.

jeltz 3y ago

Great team members. That one is very important too.

AceJohnny2 3y ago

Work-life balance. Job perks. Working on projects that you consider valuable. Non-profits are particularly good at that last point.

captainbland 3y ago
> Working on projects that you consider valuable. Sometimes I imagine all the very wealthy people thinking about where to allocate their capital like "hm, hiring more people to do computational cancer research? nah. Let's try and invalidate people's insurance claims through their ad clicks instead."
- asadotzler 3y ago
  Most corporations with any power are sociopathic institutions run by sociopaths competing with other similar corporations on who accumulate and deploy the most power. Punching down is always more lucrative than punching up and you don't change things or have breakthroughs without at least a little punching up. As you noted, that rarely happens because it's simply easier and more lucrative to fuck people over.

ghaff 3y ago

It's really not beyond a certain level. Maybe it mostly is for entry-level but tons of people don't exclusively focus on highest comp.

kevinmchugh 3y ago

Equity? If you have the choice of a million dollars in salary and 100,000 shares or 1.1 million in salary and 50,000 shares, probably you should take the lower salary

lanstin 3y ago

autonomy is a big one for some people. respect. influence/power. As a software engineer I have left jobs because the total traffic was too low, and I was addicted to 10^9 and the like numbers in my counters. Additional salary is ok, but it functionally just means I waste more or less money before having to rein it in. If I saw really rich people doing more awesome stuff with their moneys, I might think otherwise, but having a Lambo or a house so large my kids would be less able to relate to people in general doesn't seem that useful. Get used to luxry clothes instead of my somewhat scruffy true style

1-more 3y ago

A big one as a developer is internal investment. Who works on internal tooling and infrastructure? How robust is the CI/CD pipeline? How much of an event is it when a deploy happens?