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Submission + - Software Engineer's effectiveness reflected in compensation?

mspring writes: Being the lead in a very small team of a really wide range of engineering effectiveness I wondered whether the compensation range would ever reflect that effectiveness range.

Remembering Robert L. Glass factor of 28 [1] which I read years ago, I do see that he also acknowledges that discrepancy: "The best programmers are up to 28 times better than the worst programmers, according to 'individual differences' research. Given that their pay is never commensurate, they are the biggest bargains in the software field."

What gives? Should the engineers on the top feel bad? Are there other non-monetary aspects which can "compensate" for the discrepancy?

[1] Robert L. Glass, 2003, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

Comment My IDE is my desktop (Score 2) 63

While I do value using an IDE (Intellij) for actual coding, I come more an more to the realization that my entire desktop (Linux Xfce) plus terminals (Bash) is the actual development environment, making me so much more productive by allowing me to do all these little ad hoc automations, from quite hacked xclip automations bound to desktop hotkeys, over to repetitive complex shell commands (in shell history) quickly leading to little helper scripts, ... Not sure how I could get all of this in a browser-based IDE.

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