{"id":28517,"date":"2018-04-24T13:28:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T11:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=28517"},"modified":"2018-04-24T13:28:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T11:28:43","slug":"why-programmers-are-not-paid-in-proportion-to-their-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/24\/why-programmers-are-not-paid-in-proportion-to-their-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here are a couple of bits that I liked in “Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity<\/a>” blog post:<\/p>\n

How can someone be 10x more productive than his peers without being noticed? In some professions such a difference would be obvious. A salesman who sells 10x as much as his peers will be noticed, and compensated accordingly. Sales are easy to measure, and some salesmen make orders of magnitude more money than others. If a bricklayer were 10x more productive than his peers this would be obvious too, but it doesn\u2019t happen: the best bricklayers cannot lay 10x as much brick as average bricklayers. Software output cannot be measured as easily as dollars or bricks. The best programmers do not necessarily write 10x as many lines of code and they certainly do not work 10x longer hours.<\/p>\n

Programmers are most effective when they avoid writing code.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

… and:<\/p>\n

The romantic image of an \u00fcber-programmer is someone who fires up\u00a0Emacs<\/a>, types like a machine gun, and delivers a flawless final product from scratch. A more accurate image would be someone who stares quietly into space for a few minutes and then says \u201cHmm. I think I\u2019ve seen something like this before.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Here are a couple of bits that I liked in “Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity” blog post: How can someone be 10x more productive than his peers without being noticed? In some professions such a difference would be obvious. 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