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It's a good post. One thing great companies get right, is to value the engineers that are working on the codebase. If an engineer is or feels under-paid and the
by gshx 11y ago
It's a good post. One thing great companies get right, is to value the engineers that are working on the codebase. If an engineer is or feels under-paid and they get a competing offer, it's already too late to try and retain them. There's always someone out there that can/will pay 10 or 20% more, so, expecting to retain top engineers at the 70th percentile salary is going to be a futile exercise.
- rokhayakebe 11y agoOne thing great companies get right, is to value EVERYONE, regardless of their position.
- gshx 11y agoCompletely agree though as history has taught us, socialism doesn't scale very well. Better results merit better rewards. The term "Rewards" is broader than monetary benefits. Holds true not just for individual performance but also collective performance at a higher abstraction of entity - team, org, company, city, state, country, etc.
- collyw 11y agoAnd capitalism is doing such a fine job of scaling at present?
- rando289 11y ago> it's already too late to try and retain them This directly conflicts with the most upvoted advice to go get a competing offer. I've read this before too. Is a company really going to think "he's talked to another company, we can't trust him to stick around." ?