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Sep 13, 2023Liked by Kent Beck

At indeed, we have a clever way to solve this problem. When you are at level X and you are knocking out of the park, it equates to “performing at level for level X+1” and you get a much larger bonus.

Cleverly the comp system is designed so your level X base + exceed bonus = base comp of X+1.

So we promote slow (ie promote after we observe you are doing the job at C+1), but at least one is not losing out on the $…

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