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

Re:Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their produ... by ratww on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @01:24PM (#31923138)

> To me there is no logical reason for needing 19 engineers other than poor documentation

They're rebuilding it from scratch. The documentation needed to build a system from scratch should be provided entirely by management, product managers and product owners.

Should developers write some documentation? Sure. But "how to rewrite this shit from scratch" is not the kind of documentation developers should be writing.

Talented people do exist. And untalented developers are more common than talented ones. There's no reason to doubt OP or to call him a shitty documentation writer just so it matches your world view.

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Re:Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their produ... by gsibble on Monday July 04, 2022 @11:19AM (#31977974)

Thank you. The biggest issues were:

- I was not ever told to write documentation, never given time to do it, and was working around 100 hour weeks, almost all spent coding, under tight deadlines.

- I'm a senior developer / Architect with 25+ years experience and a degree in Computer Engineering from a top school

- The 19 people who replaced me were almost all right out of coding camps with 1-3 years experience

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Re:Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their produ... by headsoup on Thursday June 30, 2022 @07:46AM (#31931198)

I'm not saying the developer is crap, I'm saying it didn't take 19 developers to do what he/she did.

Each of those 19 developers could have been just as good, but the problem/requirement was likely very different for them.

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Re:Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their produ... by gsibble on Monday July 04, 2022 @11:20AM (#31977986)

I have 25+ years experience and a computer engineering degree from a top university.

The 19 people were all right out of coding camps and each had 1-3 years experience.

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Re:Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their produ... by ratww on Thursday June 30, 2022 @10:44AM (#31932977)

Are the requirements really 19 times harder though? Or at least N times larger, so that it requires 19 times more people? I most sincerely doubt it.

The reason there was 19 developers is probably because someone pulled the number 19 out of their ass.

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