USD ~117k TC, SaaS staff engineer. I work about 42.5/47.5h a week fully remote in Switzerland and as a staff you need every minute.
Edit: Bachelor and Master in CS + 6 yoe
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#1220 hours per week / $120K per year pre-tax / remote / Senior Software Engineer / 16 years experience
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#14Been doing web dev, mostly backend/Python, for almost 20 years.
180k
Fully remote
32 hours a week
I probably could be making more money, but I value other things more, like working only 4 days a week fully remotely.
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#15~650k cash, Staff Engineer, Los Angeles, 40-50hr a week. 15 yoe
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#16It's a bit personal and makes me think of this clip even though I usually try not to post YouTube links like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yPwW5V4mhI
It reminds me of this clip where Brett Favre's grandson asks him how much Tom Brady is worth: https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1308122968464130049
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#1780ish k, Linux/DevOps/(bad)Dev. I work 40ish hours, but tbh available close to 24/7 due to small company size, it only really includes out of hours bothers few times a year, but it still does.
EU, full remote.
Been working for a decade-ish now, of which last five years specifically devops.
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#18Based out the Bay Area.
~50h a week. 7 YOE Sr SRE with a BSc in CS.
Right around the $400k mark with base/equity/bonus. Private company though.
Specifically working on distributed systems.
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#19155k, Linux/DevOps/SecOps. I work about 40 hours a week full remote. However, I just found out I'm getting laid off in october as they're moving services overseas to cut costs. I work for the largest Clinical research org in the world & we were bought by them last year. I'm a bit surprised & the group that bought us was not known for tech. I think they're going to ruin a lot of their tech offerings because I've worke…
PPD? My partner says the lab side of the house is also seeing a lot of changes that will be bad for quality control and long term customer retention. Lots of people there polishing their resumes regardless of how stable their positions are.
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#20also check out the Blind app which much more focused on this topic.
The problem with Blind is that it gathers mostly obsessive people with short attention spans, and those obsessions cause a lot of exaggeration or straight up bullshittery.
It's like reading "leaks from people working at intelligence agency X", you just can't tell what is exaggeration, what are lies, so you end up a bit dumber usually.