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the value of an engineer is understood to be higher ($Millions in equity) This would be at hip, happening startups in which you take a gamble on awful pay and
by EliRivers 11y ago
the value of an engineer is understood to be higher ($Millions in equity)
This would be at hip, happening startups in which you take a gamble on awful pay and terrible hours in the hope of being the unicorn, is it? Because in the vast majority of coding jobs, you're not worth millions.
- soham 11y agoValue is always relative to supply and demand. Case in point: elementary school teachers are far more valuable, but they are still paid peanuts because there are so many of them. Engineers who can work on large scale systems in the backend and frontend are not that many. And hence they are valued higher. (I'm not talking about commoditized skills like making webpages and configuring systems, which are indeed vast majority of software jobs). How many hours you spend is a very good question, but it's a separate question from supply and demand (aka value) of core engineers.
- IndianAstronaut 11y agoEven at my small CRUD software company, there are 8 devs for a company bringing in $14million a year in revenue. That is certainly skirting the million range.
- EliRivers 11y agoHow many secretaries are there? By this reasoning, if there's one secretary, that secretary is worth millions.
- werber 11y agogood point!
- davelnewton 11y agoAnd if they're any good, they probably are.
- olso 11y agoCare to share the company?