How Much Should You Pay Your Engineers to Ensure They Stick Around?

Re:How Much Should You Pay Your Engineers to Ensure They Sti... by goatinaboat on Thursday June 18, 2020 @04:01PM (#23567286)

Hardly anyone makes it to a single decade, much less multiple. Maybe at a law firm, but not in a development role.

I’m guessing you’re a webdev and this is normal for that industry but in more “traditional” fields programmers behave much more like other white-collar workers. I’ve met plenty with 20-30 year stunts at the same company.

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Re:How Much Should You Pay Your Engineers to Ensure They Sti... by oarabbus_ on Thursday June 18, 2020 @05:41PM (#23568363)

I used to work in medical devices, where I saw more along the lines of what you're referring to. But while you'd occasionally see 10+ year stints, "multiple decades" was still rare.

Regardless, the number of developers at these companies is much fewer than in tech; therefore, they cannot be setting the equilibrium referred to by OP.

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Re:How Much Should You Pay Your Engineers to Ensure They Sti... by john366366 on Sunday June 21, 2020 @10:53AM (#23592322)

I don't know how to put it less bluntly here it goes, in my experience at non-faang orgs the software developers who stay over 5 years are not competent and likely won't pass the interview.

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