I work at a giant corporation, not a startup

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3 points·ckdarby··2 comments

"Asking for enormous compensations isn’t challenging when you’re documenting your impact and back it with results."

First of all, not all companies work that way. The world is full of engineers who invented billion-dollar technologies for their employers and never got a significant amount of money in return.

And just because I had one great idea that saved the company 100 times my salary doesn't guarantee that I'll be able to churn out ideas like that on a regular basis. Even if the company wanted to reward me, a one-time bonus might be more reasonable than giving me an enormous salary.

Inventing what becomes a billion dollar technology doesn't mean generating a billion dollars in revenue. Nothing comes to mind where an individual wasn't generously compensated when they start to finish took an invention and built a billion dollar industry.

There are also employees who have gotten significant amounts of money in return.

Maybe it is the way I'm wired but every day I see tasks to reduce operating costs. A lot of those tasks are not giant savings, couple thousand a month here, there, and all sudden we've hit $1 mln/year. I have a growing list of things that I'll never be able to finish even if I spend my entire life at this company.

What stops you from identifying problems and solving them?

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