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I have to wonder why these engineers are not paid millions of dollars per year. As a lowly backend dev this seems so much more impressive than my new API that retrieves something from a database...


Engineers are really poor negotiators, probably because they neglect "people skills".


Because their scales of what are important things are so often entirely unintelligible to the rest of the planet.


Hardware Engineers are really poor negotiators.


No need for the quotes, it's exactly the issue


Because 10 engineers paid hundreds of thousands a year do a better job than 1 engineer paid millions.

And that's because it is very high skill work, otherwise, it would have been 100 engineers paid tens of thousands.


perhaps they are, even if in stock share price appreciation?




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