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> their original idea was to play with shiny tech instead This is a behavior I would say is very hard to manage out of people and should be screened for aggres
by steveBK123 9mo ago
> their original idea was to play with shiny tech instead
This is a behavior I would say is very hard to manage out of people and should be screened for aggressively in interviews.
- Nextgrid 9mo agoThis behavior is self-inflicted by a decade of low pay and lack of significant raises to reward seniority. The most effective way to increase income for a developer is to join a place, rack up as many buzzwords as possible and leave after 2-3 years, using those buzzwords to secure a higher-paying role somewhere else. Rinse and repeat until you get a management position where you can use politics to increase your income instead. If you want guys that use boring tech to drive the business forward you have to pay them upfront the money they’d otherwise make playing the above game. It still makes sense (an engineering playground is anything but cheap) but good luck getting an employer to pay anything above “market rate”.
- philipallstar 9mo agoThe time up to and including Covid saw massive developer salary increases. They've dropped (and lots have been laid off) post-Covid, but the last ten years cannot be described as stagnation.
- Nextgrid 9mo agoThe salaries may be high in absolute terms, but they’re still low in relative terms - compared to what jumping ship would give you when you have a resume full of buzzwords.
- samrus 9mo agoI wouldnt describe the 2010s as low pay for devs
- steveBK123 9mo agoIndeed Youth is wasted on the youth