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Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads

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Re: Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads

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Post by ktu100 »

seanhandley wrote: post #14
ben174 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an important distinction. The salaries on this sheet seem low overall, and it's probably because they're new grads from bootcamp. Someone with 10+ years of experience should be demanding more than the average salary on this list.

You're kidding me. I'm in the UK, 10 years dev experience, BSc Computer Science. Every single salary in that list is higher than mine.

anecdotal evidence from Facebook: if you transfer to London office instead of Bay Area, your salary gets slashed 20%

Re: Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads

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Post by learned »

arkadiyt wrote: post #5

Here's another one that has 3600 salaries: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1a1Df6dg2Pby1UoNl...

This data doesn't seem too reliably sourced. Sorting by ascending years of experience shows negative numbers with the top entry being -9001 and an annual base pay of "a trap a day makes the boner go away"...

Re: Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads

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Post by jwarren »

seanhandley wrote: post #14
ben174 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an important distinction. The salaries on this sheet seem low overall, and it's probably because they're new grads from bootcamp. Someone with 10+ years of experience should be demanding more than the average salary on this list.

You're kidding me. I'm in the UK, 10 years dev experience, BSc Computer Science. Every single salary in that list is higher than mine.

Similar... and by quite a margin too. This is very sobering.

Re: Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads

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Post by strictnein »

bungie4 wrote: post #17

This makes me want to cry. I'm below all but one of these entries. 30 years experience + full stack + dba. All because of where I live (small northern ontario town -remotism?) and likley ageism (57). I should be getting paid MORE because of where I live.

Why would your remote location with a lower cost of living(I'm assuming, at least for housing) mean you should make more?

Re: Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads

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Post by KirinDave »

Wow! Plot this and visually analyze this. Flip out.

Even discarding the most intense outliers, there's essentially no logic to comp in these numbers.

People keep telling me they don't want to unionize. But you look at data like this and go, "Wow, what the hell is even going on."

Re: Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads

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Post by stingrae »

seanhandley wrote: post #14
ben174 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an important distinction. The salaries on this sheet seem low overall, and it's probably because they're new grads from bootcamp. Someone with 10+ years of experience should be demanding more than the average salary on this list.

You're kidding me. I'm in the UK, 10 years dev experience, BSc Computer Science. Every single salary in that list is higher than mine.

Honestly, looking at the list and knowing how much people get paid at Google.(from personal experience) I found the salaries to be quite low in total compensation.

Re: Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads

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Post by urda »

moduspwnens14 wrote: post #7

Doesn't anonymous sourcing of data like this likely introduce some significant biases?

Not to mention with something like salary folks tend to "inflate" and pump up their numbers.

Just a quick browse through this, and the fact that it claims to be "bootcamp" grads, the data is really really skewed upward IMO.

Re: Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads

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Post by ad_a »

bungie4 wrote: post #17

This makes me want to cry. I'm below all but one of these entries. 30 years experience + full stack + dba. All because of where I live (small northern ontario town -remotism?) and likley ageism (57). I should be getting paid MORE because of where I live.

A lot of this is Silicon Valley. It probably translates to a lower standard of living than what you have.

Re: Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads

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Post by bencoder »

ktu100 wrote: post #21
seanhandley wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're kidding me. I'm in the UK, 10 years dev experience, BSc Computer Science. Every single salary in that list is higher than mine.

anecdotal evidence from Facebook: if you transfer to London office instead of Bay Area, your salary gets slashed 20%

That would still be very high for London/uk
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