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Do you pay programmers with 5-6 years experience in a domain 40x junior programmers?

• alkonaut 12y ago
  Productivity as an inherent property of a developer has to be for "unseen" tasks. If someone started working with me today I'd be more than 10x as productive as them tomorrow and maybe all of next week. That is relevant for a company, but not really interesting.
  • geocar 12y ago
    That only means instantaneous productivity isn't useful. Fortunately most employers know this: The employer pays for a mean-productivity-over-time. If your productivity falls below that value you will get fired, and if it exceeds some other bound you may be bonus'd or promoted. However if the productivity exceeds this line by 40x, then the question remains: Do you pay your programmers 40x?