So, I was talking to my buddy Paul. I didn’t get the lowdown of this in my newhire orientation, but he did: Basically, whereas in most companies you can only expect more pay if you join management, here where I work the management and technical (escalation) pay scales are equal… In fact, the technical pay scale actually goes one step higher than managerial.

Commitment to excellence? Trying to keep solid technical people technical and leaving the management to managers? You better believe it.

Man, that really made me feel good to work here.