This story is a monthly fixture on HN.
Not sure why everybody and their mom is mad about something that affected a handful of top engineers five years ago. Slow news day?
Not sure why everybody and their mom is mad about something that affected a handful of top engineers five years ago. Slow news day?
It's standard practice in HR to calibrate salaries based on what other companies are doing. Some large companies end up being benchmarks for entire categories or regions.
If top engineer salaries at one company are suppressed, then so are junior engineer salaries. If that company's salaries are artificially low, then any company that uses that as a benchmark will duplicate those low salaries.
A junior engineer adopting "Steve Jobs is keeping me down" as his personal narrative probably has problems other than the games Silicon Valley billionaires play with each other.