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Re: Stack Overflow Salary Calculator

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Post by russelh15 »

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 with me, then I saw the error:

"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: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...

Re: Stack Overflow Salary Calculator

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Post by lbotos »

EnderMB wrote: post #32
markwaldron wrote: post #26

This "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.

Currently in Brooklyn, NY, it's 30 min to lower manhattan on this side. On the NJ side, it's probably about the same from Hoboken/Jersey City.

Re: Stack Overflow Salary Calculator

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Post by Bahamut »

bradlys wrote: post #28

Seems 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.

Maybe inaccurate for the Bay Area in general.

It said $146k or so was 75th percentile in the South Bay for 5 years of experience, but I am at the second to lowest level of software engineer at my company (which is one of the biggest tech employers in the area) and my base is $160k.

Re: Stack Overflow Salary Calculator

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Post by Moto7451 »

bradlys wrote: post #28

Seems 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.

My queries for LA we're also low. My guess is they base it off the salary information they've collected from their own job listings rather than a more general statistical survey of the job market.

Re: Stack Overflow Salary Calculator

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Post by bhhaskin »

idiot900 wrote: post #36
runT1ME wrote: post #33

Why 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?

Backend Developers are usually working on backend of web apps. DevOps would be closer, but still not quite right.

Re: Stack Overflow Salary Calculator

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Post by [deleted] »

joezydeco wrote: post #38
runT1ME wrote: post #33

Why 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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Re: Stack Overflow Salary Calculator

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Post by smurfysmurf »

jedberg wrote: post #13
cshenoy wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Directly to the right of where your screenshot is.
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