Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

Re:Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by cyberpunk on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @05:35PM (#20099502)

Apologies upfront if this is a bit uncouth but if you don't mind my asking; what job are you doing which pays you $400,000 a year as a salaried employee?

I'm in europe, I guess we are a bit behind on the pay scales but that's an absolutely incredible amount of money to me; I'm genuinely curious what you're being paid to do for that level of compensation...

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Re:Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by onlyrealcuzzo on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @06:11PM (#20099749)

This is just for a regular SWE position at Google. The pay there is banana town. I'm glad to be a part of it.

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Re:Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by johnsimer on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @06:35PM (#20099923)

Not for regular SWE. Def for one of the better ones.

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Re:Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by cyberpunk on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @06:41PM (#20099957)

SWE? Software engineer? What kind of software? For 400k I suspect you're not working on a CRUD ;)

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Re:Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by crispyambulance on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @08:20PM (#20100453)

I think CRUD gets an undeserved low reputation on HN.

A CRUD ceases to be a CRUD when one is dealing with Google-like scale and/or arbitrarily complex requirements behind each of those letters in the acronym!

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Re:Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by dagw on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @08:31AM (#20103687)

I expect at Google scale C,R,U and D are each a separate specialized domains.

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Re:Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by marnett on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @05:43PM (#20099559)

to own a house in mountain view.

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Re:Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by cylinder on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @08:45AM (#20103781)

Take a look at this table: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/20-companies-profit-per-emp...

There are no European companies on the list.

Companies that make enormous profits per employee can pay top employees a lot of money.

When people wonder why Americans work so much part of the reason is that these people desperately want to make it to the top where the rewards are lucrative. Is this rational? Probably not, because the top seems to get smaller in every field and most don't make it.

Also take a look at the BigLaw Profits per Partner. Top equity partners can make $4 million+ because they are at the top of a pyramid. Mostly this is in the US

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