Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (2009)

Re:Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their produ... by cryptica on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @09:41AM (#31919967)

>> Why it had to be rebuilt? Was there a really unsuccessful attempt of a handover?

This is a good question. It could be either that management is incompetent or that the code was unmaintainable. But still, the fact that it took a team of people much longer to build does prove a point. For projects of this size, it's difficult to build them fast unless the code is maintainable, even if it's just a team of 1.

There can be some extreme cases of corner-cutting which can deliver fast short term results but even this has its limits. The complexity or security issues tend to catch up with you quite quickly.

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Re:Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their produ... by gsibble on Monday July 04, 2022 @11:06AM (#31977821)

Management was incompetent and I have proof. Their stock hit a high of $15 less than six months ago. It's currently sitting at $0.66. They went from $5.5 billion to $255 million in market cap in less than six months.

They had many problems.

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