I live in EU, earn approx €52,000 as a senior software engineer (whatever that might mean) and live a happy live with a house, mortgage, wife, children, ... Don't consider myself rich, but doing good. Should I change jobs?! $168,000 - $350,000 for a Software Engineer seems outrageous. What am I missing?
> live a happy live with a house, mortgage, wife, children I need 600k to have this in san francisco.
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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)
#322Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow - posted 4 mins ago and "404 The page you are looking for no longer exists." - I know jobs get filled quickly but that must be a record :)
I'd wager the comment used a months/years old link -- they used the same URL in July. Here's another link with nearly the same job title: https://careers.siriusxm.com/careers/jobs/14830?lang=en-us
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)
#323I live in EU, earn approx €52,000 as a senior software engineer (whatever that might mean) and live a happy live with a house, mortgage, wife, children, ... Don't consider myself rich, but doing good. Should I change jobs?! $168,000 - $350,000 for a Software Engineer seems outrageous. What am I missing?
Salary depends on your country (Swiss pays higher wages than Poland), region within your country (South Germany has many more engineering companies and pays higher wages than North Germany) and type of business (banks and high frequency trading companies tend to pay more for a boring onsite experience). That being said: I am a Systems Engineer in South Germany, huge company, 85k€/year, no need to work overtime. I ask…
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)
#324Earlier quoted context omitted.
Living in the U.S. will get you a higher salary, not that small of taxes, but then extremely high cost of living. Homes are used by investors as assets to be traded and not lived in by people and we in the U.S. pay privatized costs for literally everything. However, those salaries are indeed extremely high. I am surprised given Figma was purchased by Adobe.
That’s a misrepresentation and basically using the Bay Area as a reference point. I’m in Chicago. Starting sw engineer salaries is probably around $90k-$100k. The housing nightmare exists but not as bad - depends on your school district. A good 3000 sq ft house in a suburb palatine/Arlington heights or Buffalo grove is around the $600k-$800k mark. You could obviously go smaller for a lower price.
Also, I'm not using the Bay Area as a reference point and have never even been there.
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)
#325Ever wanted to work on Open Source AI devtools? If so, we should speak! My cofounder Gabe and I started training language models for code search in 2021, and like the rest of the world we've been amazed at the progress in the space over the last few years. YC and tier 1 VCs backed us to build the ultimate AI assistant that can answer questions about large codebases, and we're looking for a product focussed engineer to join our close knit team.
About you: you hack around with GPT on the weekend, maybe you even fine-tune some of these new open source models. But you're also a solid programmer, capable of not just prototyping a nice demo but also shipping performant code that can scale. You're probably quite good at what you do, maybe you were top of your class, or maybe you rose the ranks to your comfortable senior role, but yearn for the days of writing code, redbull and deploying on a Friday.
We're a small team, looking for one individual to join us in London, in-person at least 3 days per week.
Please reach out to me at join [at] bloop [dot] ai with "HN Rust Engineer" in the subject line and a note about why this is exciting and a link to your portfolio or linkedin/resume.
P.S. Our stack is Rust, so it's likely the role will go to a candidate with Rust experience but if you think you have something to offer that compensates for lack of Rust we should chat anyway!
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#326Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)
#327Hi, I am a Masters student at Georgia Tech with two years of software dev experience at Goldman Sachs. I am looking for a Full-time starting January 2024. I have applied to the link on 29th Sep. Would it be possible for you to ask the recruiter to have a look please ?
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)
#328Earlier quoted context omitted.
> live a happy live with a house, mortgage, wife, children I need 600k to have this in san francisco.
For context: how much do "ordinary" people earn in San Francisco, such as clerks in a warehouse?
* not counting vacation days that may or may not be provided or possibilities for overtime * simple math is $28 * 40 hours per week * 52 weeks per year
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)
#329Sourcegraph is a code AI platform that makes it easy to read, write, and fix code–even in big, complex codebases.
We are building Cody, an AI coding assistant that uses code search and code intelligence to help devs quickly understand what's happening in code and generate new code that matches the best practices in your codebase. Cody supports AI-enabled autocompletion, fixing bugs, refactoring, test generation, code explanation, and answering high-level questions. You can read Steve Yegge's (our Head of Eng - Cody) post on why Cody's code context engine differentiates it from the fast-moving field of AI dev tools: https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/cheating-is-all-you-need.
Apply here: https://grnh.se/0572f98b4us
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)
#330Overleaf | Multiple Roles | Full-time | REMOTE | UK, EU, US Overleaf (www.overleaf.com) builds modern collaborative authoring tools for scientists — like Google Docs for Science. We have over 14 million registered users from around the world. Our primary product is an online, real-time collaborative editor for papers, theses, technical reports and other documents written in the LaTeX markup language. It’s used by aro…