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What developers think when you say "Rock Star"

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Re: What developers think when you say "Rock Star"

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Post by alphaoverlord »

thirdstation wrote: post #2

Why are software developers segmented between "rock stars" and "not rock stars"? A salary estimate search on Simply Hired for "rockstar accountant" yielded no results :-)

The graphics in this article is very misleading. The first three salary values are average values from SimplyHired.com while the last value for rock stars is the "average salary for the top 10 best paid music stars". If you use the same criteria to search for the last category (rockstars), you simply find an average salary of $54,000, not $50,000,000.

http://www.simplyhired.com/a/salary/search/q-(rockstar+OR+%2...

That's not to say the website's information is accurate or indicative of what people each of these categories actually make.

Salaries probably not a normal distribution, and the real high earners wouldn't be captured by guesses based on mean income. I would rather make the argument that the graphics displayed and information provided are really bad metrics. They are at best confusing, at worst misleading.

Re: What developers think when you say "Rock Star"

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Post by InclinedPlane »

heresy wrote: post #3
thirdstation wrote: post #2

Why are software developers segmented between "rock stars" and "not rock stars"? A salary estimate search on Simply Hired for "rockstar accountant" yielded no results :-)

The rock star accountants are all in jail.

One would suppose that the real rock star accountants are so good they are unknown by the public.

Re: What developers think when you say "Rock Star"

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Post by Cushman »

thirdstation wrote: post #2

Why are software developers segmented between "rock stars" and "not rock stars"? A salary estimate search on Simply Hired for "rockstar accountant" yielded no results :-)

I'm pretty sure some hedge fund managers earn more than every rock star put together.

Re: What developers think when you say "Rock Star"

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Post by tdfx »

This captured my feelings exactly about the ubiquity of this term in wanna-be-trendy job postings. I've seen quite a few companies use it, and without exception, it has meant that the company didn't know what you'd even be doing. It also means the person that's hiring you probably wants to "jump on a call" to discuss things, to see how you can "build out" their ill-defined, overly ambitious projects with whack-a-mole feature creep.
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