[noobermin]

Idk have you ever considered because the boss wants to minimize costs and paying engineers 50x (or even 2x or w/e) isn't the norm in the industry so they don't? Chalking it up to "it's hard to evaluate" seems to be missing common sense.

[carapace]

What blows my mind is that people seem to forget that time when the tech companies were caught literally conspiring to cap salaries for devs.

https://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage...

It goes on and on. This is just Pando's reporting: https://pando.com/tag/techtopus/

[bentona]

The article alludes to this but maybe doesn’t point it out clearly enough: they can only minimize cost in this way _because_ it’s hard to evaluate - otherwise the engineers in question would just work somewhere else where their value would immediately be recognized.