You don’t get the same salary and equity as a top performer. Very few companies give flat raises and bonuses without taking into account performance.
And if your manager cares about productivity, the 10x programmer is going to take the cake.
And if your manager cares about productivity, the 10x programmer is going to take the cake.
In my experience, probably negative too, since most work seem to be done by junior employees while the most seniors coast around fixing some bug every now and then on something they wrote some time ago.
Coasting senior clock punchers get base salary and little more. It’s easy for high performing people with lower titles to pass seniors in TC over a couple of years due to stacking perf bonus stock grants.