Re:Standardized Ladder of Functional Programming [pdf]
by runT1ME on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @01:23PM
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> Salaries flat out quickly
What other professions besides lawyers or doctors regularly have a 3 or 4x range for salaries of people more or less with the same job description?
Re:Standardized Ladder of Functional Programming [pdf]
by a_imho on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @04:32PM
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In addition to those? Actors, musicians, sport people. In the office? Managers. Hence the advice, focus on soft skills. I would wager the top 1% on the developer track earn nowhere near to the top 10% on the managerial track.
And your best bet is to regularly change jobs otherwise good luck getting anything more than a 5-10% increase, while managerial salaries and bonuses scale with the size of the organization. Also, there is a lot to be said about the difficulty of the work.
This might be tongue in cheek, but I agree with the parent. Engineering excellence will not further your career much, companies tend to oversell meritocracy. Salaries flat out quickly, and there is a huge supply of good enough developers, if you step out of the line too much.