[Ancorehraq]

I don't believe you. Top engineers are in a completely different bargaining category than regular, and especially junior engineers.

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.

[steffan]

Junior engineers are more likely to be affected precisely because of this reason; they have far less bargaining power than a top engineer and are subject to the standard “This is the salary band based on our research on our competitors' salaries”