[rrdharan]

> the positions we have that more traditionally handle a more complete design.. are they being overpaid in our org?

Probably, depending on the size of the org. There are lots of places for semi technical people who sort of know what they’re doing, but don’t really provide value, to hang out in a large and growing enterprise sales org. They can collect what I believe are reasonable salaries and just route between the engineers on the customer side who actually know what they want, and engineers on the provider side who can actually provide it.

Any giant coupling between an application and platform ends up looking like this, I.e. pick your favorite Fortune 500 company and their cloud provider, security engagements, hardware vendors etc.

> I don't think i'm being _underpaid_ for my architect + dev hat, but i do wonder if someone else is also being paid for architect but i'm cleaning up for them lol.

Yep. I made a joke recently that in companies that have a formalized promotion process, if you apply for promotion and are denied, one of the consolation prizes should be that you get to apply for someone else to be demoted. I jest, but sometimes it feels like that would be just as helpful and fulfilling.