Don’t Call Yourself a Developer If You Don’t Code

Re:Don’t Call Yourself a Developer If You Don’t Code by tetraodonpuffer on Sunday November 15, 2015 @01:45PM (#10570564)

most companies these days do salary surveys to make sure your salary is aligned to the "industry standard" and if you are, say, a senior engineer, your pay is tied to the average of all "senior engineers" in your area, and it doesn't matter if at your company you really are operating at a different level, you still get slotted with "industry standard senior engineer" salary and stock compensation.

It is unfortunate but titles do matter, and they matter also when you apply to future jobs to pass the HR filter.

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Re:Don’t Call Yourself a Developer If You Don’t Code by mhurron on Sunday November 15, 2015 @02:05PM (#10570639)

> titles do matter

No they don't. Companies align positions to industry standard rates, not job titles. One place will call you programmer level 3, some other place will call you Senior developer but if they have the same responsibility, they will be aligned in pay.

Where I am doesn't use the title 'Developer' or 'Programmer. Do you think that means they have no idea how to gauge people coming in or other areas of the industry that do use those titles?

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