[HN Gopher] Knowing where your engineer salary comes from
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       Knowing where your engineer salary comes from
        
       Author : mooreds
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2025-04-06 18:25 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | bruce511 wrote:
       | I work on a product that has been built over 25 years. Lots of
       | the work I did years ago is to ensure the product longevity.
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       | Lots of the work I do now is to ensure it lasts another 25 years.
       | Thats good, but its only the start of "my work".
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       | It's up to me to "sell" that benefit to upper management. There's
       | no point in assuming they'll figure it out by accident. Part of
       | my job is enumerating the value I add.
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       | By all means work on technical debt. But be sure to make a
       | compelling case as to how the eradication of that debt will
       | impact the project over the next decade. Try and throw in
       | _immediate_ results as well (faster, more reliable, reduced
       | support) but more importantly translate that into terms that
       | measure the improvement in cold hard cash.
        
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