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Ask HN: How much do you work, what's your salary and how experienced are you?
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Re: Ask HN: How much do you work, what's your salary and how experienced are you?
#52Get as much money/benefits/etc as you can. There is generally no correlation to how hard you have to work.
Case in point: I also had a really chill job and was ridiculously underpaid. The recruiter I worked with got me a job paying 2x more, with much better benefits, a great working environment, a much shorter commute (10 minutes) and cool projects to boot. There was literally no downside to taking the job. Work expectation was 40 hours/week. Yeah, for a while I did work a lot more than that because I was single (no reason to go home early) and I really liked the work. There was absolutely no pressure on me to work more than a regular work week.
I've been in industry for 30 years and have never taken a job where I worked more than 40 hours/week unless it was a short crunch. No one can force you to work more; they can suggest it, they can try to make you feel guilty, but they can't force you. And unless they want to get rid of you for some other reason, you're not going to be fired for working "just" a normal week.
Re: Ask HN: How much do you work, what's your salary and how experienced are you?
#53Senior eng manager at large well-known silicon valley company. 24 years of experience. $300K salary, roughly $300K annual stock grants. I put in a full week's work, which is ~40/hrs
Why was this downvoted? Sheesh...
Re: Ask HN: How much do you work, what's your salary and how experienced are you?
#54151k, Embedded Linux, almost fully on-site. Strictly 40 hours/week.
Re: Ask HN: How much do you work, what's your salary and how experienced are you?
#55155k, 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.
I'm on the tech side of it so I can't fully speak to the labs. But some of the lab people I do work with since before we got acquired with this company have received emails saying they could receive a 1k bonus for helping find people for certain positions that exactly match theirs lol.
So the company is trying to solicit the very people they're replacing to help them find their own replacements.
Re: Ask HN: How much do you work, what's your salary and how experienced are you?
#56$730k in cash (mixed base and bonus), 8 years of experience and I work around 45 hours a week, mostly in the office. This is in London
Re: Ask HN: How much do you work, what's your salary and how experienced are you?
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> 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. I disagree with this sentiment, it might gather "obsessive people with short attention spans", but it doesn't mean their data is wrong. there is no way I can prove it to you, because anything can be faked. But from personal experience can tell yo…
Yeah, in "prime locations", I know that. But I know it because of other sources, and to some extent despite Blind.
There's just too much rumor there written with full confidence.
Re: Ask HN: How much do you work, what's your salary and how experienced are you?
#58Just use levels fyi or glass door - the self reported salaries here will be the self-selected top of scale. And given how vague the question is the information you get here will be useless for anything but reinforcing whatever you already thought.
Glassdoor has terrible data. levels.fyi is great for big tech but very spotty for anything outside of Farangula or whatever the acronym is these days.
Not sure why this is the sentiment, perhaps because we started with FAANG. But we have much more data now representing tons of companies all across the board: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer?country=254
Larger companies do tend to get overrepresented but it’s also due to the fact that these companies hire the most and do actually largely represent the labor market.
Re: Ask HN: How much do you work, what's your salary and how experienced are you?
#59I work a standard 9-5, 40 hours every week. I make 140k as a Senior Software Engineer for a large, late stage startup. I have 6-7 years of experience. My experience consist of full stack web development using AWS services with frameworks like NextJS or vanilla react / vue projects.
I started just with a CS Degree and graduated college in 2016. My first job was data entry for Uber maps. I made about 30k a year. Next, I worked on a smart-grow application for large size cannabis farms in CO. 3-5 people sized team, I made around 40k a year. Next, I worked at an online advertising startup, around 20 people, and I made 70k a year. Now I'm at my current job as a Senior Fullstack engineer, in a late-stage startup, that does online coupons and cashback.
I really enjoyed every previous professional experience, and believe that working at a startup accelerates you much faster than starting at a larger company.
Re: Ask HN: How much do you work, what's your salary and how experienced are you?
#60I work 3 days/week, which comes out to $130k annually at my current rate. 9 years of experience.
I was working full-time making $325k, and I decided I wanted to trade comp for flexibility and free time. I’m now a self-employed contractor lucky enough to have a client that wants me 3 days/week.