The 5 supported tags thing in their form leads me to believe I am undervalued.
Cuz uh, I checked 13 things conseratively that I'd feel comfortable talking about in an interview.
Stack Overflow Salary Calculator
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#32This "calculator" really makes me appreciate the higher salaries in NYC compared to other places. Yes, the cost of living is higher, but if you are willing to commute 30ish minutes a day from outside of Manhattan, you can avoid a lot of the cost.
I'm in the UK, but I've always thought of moving to NYC one day (despite the man in government at the mo).
Is it really only a 30 minute commute into Manhattan?! I live in Bristol, and at times I've had an hour commute by bus. I always assumed that Americans spent longer on commute in the larger cities.
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#33Why does SO seem to completely omit "backend engineers". I don't work on web stuff, I write network applications/cloud services.
There are a lot of folks similar doing that at amazom, google, etc.
Does this seem like a huge oversight to anyone else?
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#34Seems inaccurate for SF. It was saying that half of devs were making less than $90k for 3 years of experience. I find that hard to believe. Yes, maybe that's the listings but I think it's insane to think you get paid that when almost every company here past seed stage will pay $100k+ for any new dev.
It seems like they're (wisely) not including anything but base slaary in this?
I definitely know young devs at Uber who were in the 90-110 range on base salary and then a ton of stock. It's the height of stupid but they're young so...
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#35As usual, failing to take into account equity and bonuses makes this less useful. Salary is <= 50% of the story for most senior roles.
I'm sorry, but I think this is much better for not including funny money from startups that give private equity grants, at least I in the lower bands of the range.
I know people for whom half their pay is equity and they can't even afford to take the options. And for many places I've been, the stock was never sellable outside of shady private stock trading groups that your board may or may not let you sell to.
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#36Why does SO seem to completely omit "backend engineers". I don't work on web stuff, I write network applications/cloud services. There are a lot of folks similar doing that at amazom, google, etc. Does this seem like a huge oversight to anyone else?
Is that similar to "Backend Developer" in the dropdown list?
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#37The salary stated is at least -10,000€ below what I get paid and my coworkers.
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#38Why does SO seem to completely omit "backend engineers". I don't work on web stuff, I write network applications/cloud services. There are a lot of folks similar doing that at amazom, google, etc. Does this seem like a huge oversight to anyone else?
No embedded engineers. No graphics work. No UI work. No keywords for things like "microcontroller", or "driver", or "Linux".
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#39Why does SO seem to completely omit "backend engineers". I don't work on web stuff, I write network applications/cloud services. There are a lot of folks similar doing that at amazom, google, etc. Does this seem like a huge oversight to anyone else?
Yeah, i was confused too. Most engineers are actually backend: building APIs, distributed systems, large data compute... i would think these are the things people are doing when using 'high-demand technologies' such as AWS.
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#40Why does SO seem to completely omit "backend engineers". I don't work on web stuff, I write network applications/cloud services. There are a lot of folks similar doing that at amazom, google, etc. Does this seem like a huge oversight to anyone else?
So Backend dev