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Is that because you're reading "competitive" as competitive with other companies that haven't taken outside funding?

• minthd 12y ago
  Because i'm reading competitive as standard market rates.
  • inourtime 12y ago
    And standard market rates aren't good?
    • chrisbennet 12y ago
      No, I think "standard market rates" are what employers are paying their engineer who has been there for a few years (and whom they are currently paying below what he/she could get if they left for another job) or possibly what someone would pay for a "standard software engineer" who really needed a job. If you want to attract exceptional engineers then by gosh, you might just have to pay exceptional salaries. At the end of the day, it's a business relationship and an intelligent engineer is quite justified in capturing some of the value that he or she generates.