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Re:Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their produ... by wes-exp on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @11:33AM (#3243749)
The 10:1 productivity gap is well established in the academic literature for software engineering.

There are not many concrete quantitative statements one can make about the profession, but this is one of them.

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Re:Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their produ... by brider on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @11:51AM (#3243845)
Do you have any references for this, my good man? I don't mean to question your comment; I want to learn more about how this has been established and the nature of it.
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Re:Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their produ... by azov on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @02:04PM (#3244529)
I don't have any references to academic research, but my own experience interviewing people supports the claim. When presented with a simple coding problem, some people just breeze through it, others take most of the interview to finish it, and some candidates just can't solve it at all.

To the extent to which coding on a whiteboard is an indicator of real-world productivity, there definitely seems to be at least 5x difference.

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