Maybe in some fields sales is more difficult than building the product. But I do not agree that generally sales is harder than development. And certainly does not justify significant differences in rewarding performed work.
I used to be an actor, but programming jobs are easier to come by. I've been doing this now for 11 years. I focus on pixels and experience, especially on iOS and the web.
This is very true - it doesn't matter how talented the team producing the "raw resource" of the software is if they lack the necessary supporting teams. I'm totally guilty of falling into the "but Engineers can do anything" trap and now try to remember the necessity of leaders to choose the right product, marketers to reach and convince the customer, and operations to charge the customer and deliver the product.
To extend the running metaphor in this threads: it doesn't matter if you can create diamonds from thin air if you're doing it in a warehouse, no one except HackerNews knows about it, and everyone wants rubies anyways.
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Important to note here is that without proper leadership and sales, coal will not turn into polished diamonds or into high-profit sales either.
Leading a team is at least as valuable as being a contributor in the team.
And selling is at least as hard of a job than creating things to sell.
Maybe in some fields sales is more difficult than building the product. But I do not agree that generally sales is harder than development. And certainly does not justify significant differences in rewarding performed work.
This is very true - it doesn't matter how talented the team producing the "raw resource" of the software is if they lack the necessary supporting teams. I'm totally guilty of falling into the "but Engineers can do anything" trap and now try to remember the necessity of leaders to choose the right product, marketers to reach and convince the customer, and operations to charge the customer and deliver the product.
To extend the running metaphor in this threads: it doesn't matter if you can create diamonds from thin air if you're doing it in a warehouse, no one except HackerNews knows about it, and everyone wants rubies anyways.