Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of curiosity, what do you do? Which tech stack? What does your employer do?
Two remote positions in two different time zones.
Do they know this? Are you a service provider?
Ask HN: Remote salary headroom? (non US based)
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Re: Ask HN: Remote salary headroom? (non US based)
#22Working for a UK company here, although remotely from another country, making around $90k as a lead engineer in a somewhat specialized field.
Seeing as salaries are constantly rising due to WFH being so common, and with anecdotal data from this thread, I'm feeling I might be underpaid (closing in on 10 years of experience on top of CS diploma and an MSc).
So my side question is, how do you target high paying positions without having to go through a LC type interview in a FAANG company? Recruiters who reach out to me on Linkedin avoid the salary question usually.
Re: Ask HN: Remote salary headroom? (non US based)
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that's highly location dependent. Your numbers might be right for a few locations like Silicon Valley, N. VA, NYC, etc. But the majority of locations seem much lower - basically half. I don't see a national median from the BLS for seniors, but I see other numbers saying $115k-130k median for seniors (glassdoor, indeed, payscale, etc). This is consistent with what I see. Most of the senior dev positions in my…
What's a common/upper mid-level salary in the Philly area? Just curious, seems like you have a good beat on it.
I'm a midlevel dev. I think my company range for the level is about $75k-110k. It seems to be consistent with others in the area. There could be higher ones, but I don't see many mid level postings, especially with salary info. The vast majority are senior postings. Glassdoor says $85k is pretty average/common for a mid level in my area with 5+ years experience and a masters.
Re: Ask HN: Remote salary headroom? (non US based)
#24Working for a UK company here, although remotely from another country, making around $90k as a lead engineer in a somewhat specialized field. Seeing as salaries are constantly rising due to WFH being so common, and with anecdotal data from this thread, I'm feeling I might be underpaid (closing in on 10 years of experience on top of CS diploma and an MSc). So my side question is, how do you target high paying position…
You hit leetcode until you can do mediums in 20 minutes.
Re: Ask HN: Remote salary headroom? (non US based)
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
You think so? Do non-FAANG senior software engineers not get 200k+bonus? Seems to be bimodal. Good senior devs get 180-200k and then FAANG get 300k+.
I think that's highly location dependent. Your numbers might be right for a few locations like Silicon Valley, N. VA, NYC, etc. But the majority of locations seem much lower - basically half. I don't see a national median from the BLS for seniors, but I see other numbers saying $115k-130k median for seniors (glassdoor, indeed, payscale, etc). This is consistent with what I see. Most of the senior dev positions in my…
There are a lot of high-paying jobs in Northern Virginia?
Re: Ask HN: Remote salary headroom? (non US based)
#26Working for a UK company here, although remotely from another country, making around $90k as a lead engineer in a somewhat specialized field. Seeing as salaries are constantly rising due to WFH being so common, and with anecdotal data from this thread, I'm feeling I might be underpaid (closing in on 10 years of experience on top of CS diploma and an MSc). So my side question is, how do you target high paying position…
You hit leetcode until you can do mediums in 20 minutes.
This. It’s less bad than you think.
learning styles:
- text
- videos
- tutor
- with random person from the web (eg pramp)
- with a buddy
(And all include practicing problems)
Pick the learning style you like most. It isn’t so bad.
Re: Ask HN: Remote salary headroom? (non US based)
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
You hit leetcode until you can do mediums in 20 minutes.
This. It’s less bad than you think. learning styles: - text - videos - tutor - with random person from the web (eg pramp) - with a buddy (And all include practicing problems) Pick the learning style you like most. It isn’t so bad.
I can realistically do most mediums quite quickly, missing an edge case here and there without a test-fix loop like LC provides. On LC and in Python I find most of the medium problems trivial. This is not my problem.
My problem is I find these interviews dehumanizing, and they reflect on how the work is afterwards. I like my work, and I like working with people who like their work and are there because they're good at doing what the work is, not because they could do what most second year undergrads could easily do. I've been historically targeting positions related to certain field, and I'd want to be hired because of what knowledge and experience I've built up.
Still, my feeling is worsened by how long these interview processes take (multiple sessions of the same thing basically), and how you can fail arbitrarily because of slight mistakes. Which means, even if you know you'll pass 80% (quite good) of your LC medium focused interviews, if you take 5 of them in a row, you have a 32% of not failing one. It's a numbers game, obviously, but that doesn't mean the human playing it doesn't experience feelings of stress and frustration.
Re: Ask HN: Remote salary headroom? (non US based)
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that's highly location dependent. Your numbers might be right for a few locations like Silicon Valley, N. VA, NYC, etc. But the majority of locations seem much lower - basically half. I don't see a national median from the BLS for seniors, but I see other numbers saying $115k-130k median for seniors (glassdoor, indeed, payscale, etc). This is consistent with what I see. Most of the senior dev positions in my…
There are a lot of high-paying jobs in Northern Virginia?
It's all relative. It's a semi-high COL region. You have a lot of security, defense, intelligence, and other government contractor/ consulting jobs in the area. I see a lot of $100k+ jobs and even a fair number of $200k+ jobs. This is better than my area and appears to be as better than the national median of about $105k since I see way more jobs over that number than under it in that area.
Re: Ask HN: Remote salary headroom? (non US based)
#29About 800 (eight hundred, not a typo) dollars / month. "Exec" at the company. Company charges around 1,800 dollars/day for my work to clients. Overseeing the company, the whole product lifecycle, hiring, sales, operations, architecture, copywriting.
No equity.
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