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Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

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Post by randommodnar »

cloakandswagger wrote: post #28
cloakandswagger wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry, how exactly was it fixed? Now I can mark 'Other', but as a gender-fluid this really should be more a slider

And now I'm being downvoted by pro-Trump bigots

You're being downvoted because the idea of asking people to self-report their personal many-spirited gender identities on an oppressive, single-axis slider is outright offensive. You might as well literally be Hitler.

We clearly need a 5-dimensional gender selector in the form of a virtual tesseract.

Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

#42

Post by samstave »

eitally wrote: post #29
akhilcacharya wrote: post #3

$122K in RDU seems very high for a developer/engineer, strange.

It is high, but it depends on experience and who they work for. More common for people with 5-7yr experience is in the 90-110k range, but it's not abnormal to find skilled folks at places like SAS, Cisco, Citrix, Redhat, MS, Lenovo, BASF, IBM, NetApp, and many more earning above mean salaries. Source: live in RDU, was an engineering director until last summer, hired lots of people here over the years and know a bunch…

What/where is RDU?

Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

#43

Post by akhilcacharya »

antonioneffy wrote: post #35

Didn't realize that $80k straight out of college was that high until I saw this. Wow.

All depends on the area ;)

Best offers I have seen out of college is $130K total comp from random people on the internet, haven't seen anything better yet.

Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

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Post by pushboundaries »

cloakandswagger wrote: post #28
cloakandswagger wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry, how exactly was it fixed? Now I can mark 'Other', but as a gender-fluid this really should be more a slider

And now I'm being downvoted by pro-Trump bigots

I sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter. Ever since I was a boy I dreamed of soaring over the oilfields dropping hot sticky loads on disgusting foreigners. People say to me that a person being a helicopter is Impossible and I’m fucking retarded but I don’t care, I’m beautiful. I’m having a plastic surgeon install rotary blades, 30 mm cannons and AMG-114 Hellfire missiles on my body. From now on I want you guys to call me “Apache” and respect my right to kill from above and kill needlessly. If you can’t accept me you’re a heliphobe and need to check your vehicle privilege. Thank you for being so understanding.

Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

#45

Post by ones_and_zeros »

What I'd like to see is a salary aggregator that works as a native app only:

1) It should use the Facebook model of release where only "elite" institutions are allowed on at first and only one at a time.

2) It should use geolocation as a way to verify the user works there (other ways are easier to game or too burdensome). Yes, this does leave out remote workers. See #1.

Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

#46

Post by akhilcacharya »

samstave wrote: post #42
eitally wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is high, but it depends on experience and who they work for. More common for people with 5-7yr experience is in the 90-110k range, but it's not abnormal to find skilled folks at places like SAS, Cisco, Citrix, Redhat, MS, Lenovo, BASF, IBM, NetApp, and many more earning above mean salaries. Source: live in RDU, was an engineering director until last summer, hired lots of people here over the years and know a bunch…

What/where is RDU?

Raleigh/Durham NC - we're probably the biggest tech hub behind Austin.

Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

#47

Post by pvnick »

ones_and_zeros wrote: post #45

What I'd like to see is a salary aggregator that works as a native app only: 1) It should use the Facebook model of release where only "elite" institutions are allowed on at first and only one at a time. 2) It should use geolocation as a way to verify the user works there (other ways are easier to game or too burdensome). Yes, this does leave out remote workers. See #1.

Go for it!

Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

#48

Post by vonmoltke »

eitally wrote: post #29
akhilcacharya wrote: post #3

$122K in RDU seems very high for a developer/engineer, strange.

It is high, but it depends on experience and who they work for. More common for people with 5-7yr experience is in the 90-110k range, but it's not abnormal to find skilled folks at places like SAS, Cisco, Citrix, Redhat, MS, Lenovo, BASF, IBM, NetApp, and many more earning above mean salaries. Source: live in RDU, was an engineering director until last summer, hired lots of people here over the years and know a bunch…

I need to look harder in RDU then, because I love North Carolina and would love the pay raise.

Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

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Post by DarkTree »

cloakandswagger wrote: post #22
z0a wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My mistake. Fixed.

I'm sorry, how exactly was it fixed? Now I can mark 'Other', but as a gender-fluid this really should be more a slider

Surprisingly, this is the first troll I've seen on HN.
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