Could you be more specific? What are you suggesting to do?
A large part of the problem is political cronyism and the incredibly tedious culture that develops when you get a lot of people with very few skills together to talk about something they know nothing about.
I'd legitimately take less money if I could somehow be convinced an employer isn't a piece of shit. If I'm going to work for an asshole, I will be well paid. I think this is a reasonable stance most people in the space take. That, or retiring and having a communal garden.
> for businesses with small profit margins.
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> It's hard because your security department
Dude, we barely have money for an engineering team, let alone enough people to call it a department.
The security department is me when I’m not being inundated with five other things, all at the same time.
It’s not like anyone else has a department either, there’s like, 12 people working here in total man.
^ parent, probably.
I know it was true for me in “cash strapped” environment