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I think sales people are often overpaid, and developers underpaid. After all, the people creating the value and maintaining the product are the ones that are tr
by NateDad 14y ago
I think sales people are often overpaid, and developers underpaid. After all, the people creating the value and maintaining the product are the ones that are truly "selling" it. The sales people are just pointing people's eyes at what dev makes.
- charlieflowers 14y agoI'm a developer, and I used to feel this way. But there are 2 problems with this perspective. First, developers' contributions are much harder to quantify. And second, sales and marketing is really hard, as proven by all the well-engineered projects that have gone nowhere.
- wting 14y agoThis is a common view held by engineers. Engineers believe in meritocracy and thinks the market behaves the same way. "Build a great product and the customers will come." Unfortunately this is consistently disproven in the market. Many technically better products do worse than competitors on the marketplace. Marketing and sales has a significant impact on products' success. The average customer usually does not spend very much time evaluating alternatives based on technical merits.