When talking about compensation, it might as well be an “enterprise shop”
Just in case you don’t read the link above, that’s not meant to be derisive. It’s just a pure statement of fact.
There are plenty of “startups” that locate in major cities in the US outside of tech hubs, find a bunch of MS developers to write the next CRUD SaaS app and pay enterprise dev wages. I should know, I spent over two decades working for them
I understand what you meant, i just disagree with your phrasing of it. You can simply call it the "best compensated/all the rest" divide. But other than that game development is not at all like Enterprise so I don't find yours a good name for this supposed dichotomy.
I think you would get a lot less pushback by simply using more precise terminology- even though for you it may all be the same, for people working outside of FAANG-esque companies it isn't.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33140210
When talking about compensation, it might as well be an “enterprise shop”
Just in case you don’t read the link above, that’s not meant to be derisive. It’s just a pure statement of fact.
There are plenty of “startups” that locate in major cities in the US outside of tech hubs, find a bunch of MS developers to write the next CRUD SaaS app and pay enterprise dev wages. I should know, I spent over two decades working for them