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Wow, after ~90 submissions there have been 0 female-identified entries :/
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I'm just wondering why a lot of these people with tons of experience are settling for sub-$70k jobs. Is there a reason for this?
I was hired for $65k or so after a 6-month job search left me financially drained. There was the promise that typical raises could go into the 10% or more per year region, with a possible promotion to a Senior Software Engineer position, but after a sister company had a poor year of growth and a lawsuit hit my company this past year, I'm at-or-under $70k. It's awful, especially when given that I work 44-48 hours per…
Does anyone know why engineering salaries are so low in Chicago? Especially with regards to city size / cost of living / amount of tech? It baffled me when I lived there, and it still baffles me when I don't.
A lot of them cannot or just don't want to move far away for more pay. A lot of the grads are from chicago or smaller midwestern cities.
Does anyone know why engineering salaries are so low in Chicago? Especially with regards to city size / cost of living / amount of tech? It baffled me when I lived there, and it still baffles me when I don't.
Easier to hire here, supposedly. Fewer tech firms by comparison to SF/NY -> less competition for applicants. I'm in Chicago making ~95k and these threads the last couple days have been ever so mildly depressing, with people graduating same year as me and making $323k.
Wow, after ~90 submissions there have been 0 female-identified entries :/
I'm one of the only women I know who posts here. I'm afraid it's not a particularly friendly community for women, and it does get old seeing the same stupid flamewars about gender and women in the industry and feminism et cetera ad infinitum.
Anti-female, sexist, or insensitive-about-female-issue posts regularly get downvoted and flagged, from what I've seen.
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I'm one of the only women I know who posts here. I'm afraid it's not a particularly friendly community for women, and it does get old seeing the same stupid flamewars about gender and women in the industry and feminism et cetera ad infinitum.
> "I'm afraid it's not a particularly friendly community for women" Anti-female, sexist, or insensitive-about-female-issue posts regularly get downvoted and flagged, from what I've seen.