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Re: Stack Overflow Salary Calculator

#11

Post by sharpercoder »

That was terrible UX. After searching for the link (why not place it at the top?) which can be done easier and clearer. I filled everything in, then it turned out the location was not supported. So I took the bigger city in the area. Then I got the message

> We don't support this location. Select a location from the dropdown menu.

There is no dropdown menu. I then hovered over the I icon, to only then learn my country is not supported.

Re: Stack Overflow Salary Calculator

#12

Post by cshenoy »

jedberg wrote: post #9

I'm surprised they don't have a box at the bottom, after you get your results, that says, "How did we do? What is your current salary?"

There's a box above the graph that asks: "Is this accurate? Please help us improve the Salary Calculator by adding your salary"

Re: Stack Overflow Salary Calculator

#13

Post by jedberg »

cshenoy wrote: post #12
jedberg wrote: post #9

I'm surprised they don't have a box at the bottom, after you get your results, that says, "How did we do? What is your current salary?"

There's a box above the graph that asks: "Is this accurate? Please help us improve the Salary Calculator by adding your salary"

Yours must be different than mine:

https://imgur.com/a/xCsE9

Re: Stack Overflow Salary Calculator

#15

Post by mfoy_ »

staticelf wrote: post #2

My country isn't supported :( Also a lot of technologies seems to be missing, like .NET.

Yeah, they also didn't include a lot of proprietary platforms. For example if you have 5+ years of customizing and implementing a specific enterprise platform you're probably highly in demand, but it's hard to approach that from a "developer salary" point of view.

Re: Stack Overflow Salary Calculator

#16

Post by Kiro »

sharpercoder wrote: post #11

That was terrible UX. After searching for the link (why not place it at the top?) which can be done easier and clearer. I filled everything in, then it turned out the location was not supported. So I took the bigger city in the area. Then I got the message > We don't support this location. Select a location from the dropdown menu. There is no dropdown menu. I then hovered over the I icon, to only then learn my countr…

Same thing happened to me. Seems like a really big oversight.

Re: Stack Overflow Salary Calculator

#19

Post by alexandercrohde »

Meh, garbage. I always see these things that are significantly off, by like $60,000 or more. You're not asking the important questions that relate to earnings:

- Were you born in America or has your employer held your pay down because you have a green card?

- How many times have you changed jobs (each time probably leads to a $15k bump or more!)

What garbage. If you're going to do an analysis like this try to teach us something interesting by looking at numerous factors (race, sex, age, major, do you have a github, public speaking skill, number of raises asked for, etc)

Re: Stack Overflow Salary Calculator

#20

Post by SCdF »

Upon using the calculator, the Location won't fill in properly. Looking at the console:

> You have exceeded your daily request quota for this API. For more information on usage limits and the Google Maps Javascript API services please see…

Wow, either the calculator is incredibly popular, or someone didn't change their api key from their dev one…

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