Comment by givemeethekeys
8 days ago
How do they incentivize government employees into doing such excellent work without paying them a real tech salary?
8 days ago
How do they incentivize government employees into doing such excellent work without paying them a real tech salary?
Use military members.
I was a special agent with an org involved in similar work. They put me through 7 SANS courses, including paying for 5 certs, in 18 months.
They are contractors. The public face of Ghidra works at Praxis, for example.
$160k-$170k is not a bad salary; in some cases they get $250k, but sure, it's not a FAANG type.
Most folks in government service are making significantly less than that. That's midrange GS-15 pay.
I wouldn't say a program in Java Swing / AWT would count as excellent.
Great benefits and job security, and a belief in the mission.
The job security perk was recently defenestrated.
Hopefully seen as an aberration. Otherwise we may see the excellent work go out the window along with it.