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Yeah? Well, proper rewards make those savings and optimizations more common. Otherwise most people will do the work needed just to have work tomorrow.
by meiraleal 2y ago
Yeah? Well, proper rewards make those savings and optimizations more common. Otherwise most people will do the work needed just to have work tomorrow.
- Sohcahtoa82 2y agoIt creates a perverse incentive to deliberately do things a more expensive way at the beginning and then be a hero 6 months down the line by refactoring it to be less expensive.
- fn-mote 2y agoHa ha, software developers already have this incentive. Viz: "superhero 10x programmer" writing unmaintainable code to provide some desirable features, whose work later turns out to be much less awesome than originally billed. Of course the truth is more complicated than the sound bite, but still...
- groby_b 2y agoDepends. There are people who put in the absolute minimum work they can get away with, and there are people who have pride in their profession. That's independent of pay scale. Granted, if you pay way below expectations, you'll lose the professionals over time. But if you pay lavishly no matter what, you get the 2021/2022 big tech hiring cycle instead. Neither one is a great outcome.
- meiraleal 2y agoA business that relies on people having pride in their profession won't scale. Proper rewards scale.
- groby_b 2y agoWe demonstrated in 2022 that they don't. There is no single mechanism that does. Paying well is always a component in attracting talent (see my original comment) It is not a guarantor of quality/motivation. That's ongoing leadership work. And part of that is maintaining/kindling pride in people's work (and firing the ones who are just there for the money)