Pay inequality between engineers and ops
What’s everyone’s opinion on the pay inequality in tech. I’ve noticed companies like Square and Flexport severely underpay operations (60-90k) while new grad TC might be (140-180k) as an engineer. Does the difference in work and impact really equate to that big of a salary difference?
Simple supply and demand. Besides work and impact also consider the skills required and the scarcity of those skill sets
I have a very dumb question: what is ops? hw engineer here, just curious
Operations. Think sysadmin but fancier. They are responsible for ensuring uptime, server management, database maintenance, that sort of stuff. Actual responsibility varies across co.
I understand, thank you
Keeping it real, most companies are eliminating ops roles while they adopt cloud providers like aws. Better off transitioning into a devops role somewhere.
Past a certain size, you absolutely need operations, with or without AWS.
The impact of an engineer is proportional to the size of the business. Impact of operational work is proportional to hours worked.
Why dont you do eng work yourself and find out? It's seriously not that challenging to get an entry level dev position I mean if you're complaining about this then you might as well complain about how restaurant/factory/warehouse workers are underpaid. They work pretty hard too