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Ask HN: 30+ men and women in software, how much do you make?

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Re: Ask HN: 30+ men and women in software, how much do you make?

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Post by d4rkph1b3r »

bbcbasic wrote: post #30
d4rkph1b3r wrote: post #27

35 Los Angeles (working for a BaY Area company remotely). 175k total cash comp (part of it is bonus).

Out of interest, what sort of skills and responsibility are expected to get that level of income?

writing cloud based services, some low level network code and some higher level FP style code. I have a lot of github contributions to notable projects (took a lot of time to build that up).

I have a few close friends who make a fair bit more working at big 4 tech companies who don't any sort of online presence. They just did well in interviews, were persistent and not afraid to flunk some interviews, then worked hard to get promoted.

Re: Ask HN: 30+ men and women in software, how much do you make?

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Post by bigbang »

foobar100 wrote: post #29

33 here, NYC, Finance, major company. 15 years experience. Low-latency trading systems programming, and some management. 380 base, 450 bonus.

Wow. What sort of programming do you do? Do you mind sharing how to get to such a level, skills needed etc?
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