Re: Ada Skill Assessments

[Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <7lgdbn$lnn$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Joe Wisniewski <wisniew@acm.org> wrote:
>    I see a lot of frustration among the higher talented Ada people out
>    there that the spread of salary/rates is NOT commensurate with the
>    "spread" of capabilities.

I agree about that part personally. But from my experience as
an interviewee there are 2 main reasons for that attitude on the part of
employers:

  1)  Unless they know you already, they have no good way of
really figuring out how good (or bad) you are just from an interview.
They tend to just rely on their impression of your personality during
the interview. If you don't interview well, your offer will suffer.
Charasimatic boat-anchors who do interview well often get great offers.

That is something your proposal could go some of the way toward fixing.

  2)  Companies have a fixed salary structure that they must squeeze you
into. This structure is typically based on years of experience, not
"quality of skills". If you try to ask for more than they typically give
an engineer with your years of experience, they act like you'll start an
insurrection.

I don't see how you can do anything about that.

The only real solution I see to this for a truly frustrated engineer is
to go into the contracting market, where hourly rates supposedly do tend
to be  based on the quality of the work you can perform.

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T.E.D.


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