I found this article interesting and valuable, and it's certainly started some great discussions in this thread.
With one massive exception: the "There's no median programmer" section stuck out like a sore thumb. It seemed to be going out of its way to unload a bunch of chips from the author's shoulder about other developers in a way that... didn't really add any value?
The title prepared me for a section about how actually, when we talk about software development, it's very risky to generalise. Instead I was mainly reminded of the Goomba fallacy.
I think it's interesting to think about why software engineer compensation have looked different to management or product ownership compensation, but I also think trying to generalise suffers from the problem that... there's no median product manager.
With one massive exception: the "There's no median programmer" section stuck out like a sore thumb. It seemed to be going out of its way to unload a bunch of chips from the author's shoulder about other developers in a way that... didn't really add any value?
The title prepared me for a section about how actually, when we talk about software development, it's very risky to generalise. Instead I was mainly reminded of the Goomba fallacy.
I think it's interesting to think about why software engineer compensation have looked different to management or product ownership compensation, but I also think trying to generalise suffers from the problem that... there's no median product manager.