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Why does Roblox pay $1.2 million to a single developer?
The End of Year Pay Report 2021 revealed the unbelievable salaries offered to developers
Everyone wants to be a developer now because companies are paying a lot of money. But most people drop when they realize it’s really difficult.
As I commented in my previous article, this is mainly because programming education is terrible.
What’s happening today is that companies realized not every programmer is a good programmer, and talented software engineers are in great demand.
“The great software engineer is incredibly creative and can see conceptual patterns that others can’t.”
Reed Hastings. Netflix CEO.
Intel’s Disaster
The fall of Intel perfectly illustrates why companies are so desperate for exceptional engineers.
In the past, Intel had a semiconductors monopoly. But in the last few years, AMD clearly has had the upper hand.
They need a new CEO; the CEO needs to be technical. If you look at AMD, for example, they’ve caught up tremendously on Intel, in Intel’s area, and their CEO is a PhD.
