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Still, we NEED higher salaries in Germany. I've seen so many people waste away on stupid code that should never have been written. (Instead, how about using a f
by thejdude 12y ago
Still, we NEED higher salaries in Germany. I've seen so many people waste away on stupid code that should never have been written. (Instead, how about using a framework that automates away 90% of grunt development?) Most of the time I'm working in projects that I could have written myself in months, and they have two-digits of developers working on it for years sometimes.
The incentives are exactly the opposite of what made Germany big in high-tech manufacturing. We treat developers as the mediocre, cheap code monkeys they often are (using the word "mediocre" so I don't have to swear on HN).
- bayesianhorse 12y agoHow would higher salaries make coding more productive? That seems to be an unwarranted assumption. Developer productivity and project management is a large field. I sometimes feel that programmers, especially the idealistic ones, tend to overestimate their own performance, and underestimate the problems of project management.
- thejdude 12y agoIt's definitely a large field, and management is hard in its own way. The way to measure developer performance is easy though: you have to look back instead of forward, then you see what people get (or rather: got) done. Sure, if you're an idealist and aren't used to estimation, you tend to underestimate the effort for a given feature or bug.