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Re:Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued (2012) by williamdclt on Saturday September 26, 2020 @09:27AM (#24598659)
It's never that simple, really. Is the extra person just "an extra pair of hand" or are they filling a spot that nobody is currently successful at?

I'm in a 4 person team currently, give me an additional project manager and productivity will soar as devs can focus on technical aspects, rather than being inefficient at PMing for a mediocre output (at least that's my expectation, you never know in advance I suppose)

Re:Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued (2012) by tasuki on Saturday September 26, 2020 @12:17PM (#24599879)
Agreed, if people are in different roles, an extra pair of hands can be fully productive. As soon as the fifth person is eg working on the same codebase of the previous four, there arises necessary overhead and stepping on each others' toes.