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Having had real conversations with company leadership about "the board being concerned about engineer salaries being above industry norms" despite "having the h
by jknoepfler 2y ago
Having had real conversations with company leadership about "the board being concerned about engineer salaries being above industry norms" despite "having the highest revenue per engineer in their portfolio" I can... anecdotally confirm.
- dijit 2y agoI'm here to second this. I've been in the board room when discussing salaries and told that we need to offer the lowest that the candidate will accept - "it's just good business". I was arguing against that mentality as responsibilities and retention are a more important metric to my mind when thinking about compensation. But even there, I'm part of the problem as I would set my "retention" target to some measure above industry standard: where-by I am still thinking in industry standard terms. (as per this thread)