Engineer reports expanded role absorption without pay increase
5Oct 30 5:18 PM · 13d ago · 2 comments · 1 source · development 5 of 7
A software engineer described their company assigning them product and DevOps work alongside coding, expanding their scope without additional compensation. The engineer noted the trend may vary by industry and expressed mixed feelings—finding it meaningful but recognizing it as a potential exploitation of AI productivity gains.
“at my company they are trying to get us engineers to absorb that role so now we spend a lot of our time doing meetings and human interactions like this with other parts of the business…i'm now a devops/product/dev person and expected to do all of that at once for the same pay as before”
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at my company they are trying to get us engineers to absorb that role so now we spend a lot of our time doing meetings and human interactions like this with other parts of the business and making decisionsidk how common this is in the industry though, but since the introduction of AI my role has expanded so much beyond what is just writing code…
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