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If you need productivity right away then you don't need an employee, you need a consultant.
Sure, but the consulting firms need employees right away. With specific skills.
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> I could be super wrong but I'd expect a Java programmer to become useful on a C# project faster than I'd expect an AWS person to become useful building out other cloud infrastructure. I think that is indeed wrong. The major clouds are all pretty similar in terms of the commodity IaaS services - VMs, disks, networks, load balancers etc., right up to things like managed Kubernetes clusters (AWS EKS, Google GKS, etc.)…
All the consulting shops I have worked so far require Java and .NET stacks experience, as most customers use both and depending on the project setup you might even write Java (or other JVM language) in the morning and some .NET language in the afternoon. For example, Spring for the backend with a Xamarin/WPF frontend.
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I think you underestimate the COL difference because you are settling for inferior housing. Do you at least have a low-end house, such as 2000 square feet on a 0.25 acre lot that is all your own? Around here in the Space Coast area, that goes for $150,000. It can be done with a 5-minute commute. Software developers get paid better than typical, so they can get fancier housing if they don't have expensive hobbies. See…
We live in a 1500 square foot townhouse. It's smaller than the 2200 square foot beast we left behind near the Space Coast, in fact. But my cash salary is 3x what I was earning there, the benefits are better, the equity is a nice bonus on top of that, and the CoL is just about 2x. I save about what my net take-home used to be. I'd be saving more, but one of my kids need therapy that is quite costly and not covered by…