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Proving the parents point I think :)
Not thinking doesn't imply not beingness. One might also say - they're not smart enough to realize that they are smarter. [But this is another PoV].
Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?
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Just post the typical cost of a 3 bedroom house in your area and watch the bay area folk get depressed.
There was an article just recently, average SF house price just hit $1M
Now, I'll grant you, Palo Alto and San Mateo have a fair number of unexceptional ranch homes in this region, but it's bullshit to claim that you have to spend $1M to secure a minimally-decent family home in the Bay area.
Edit: Little bit of reality here (like $500K+ homes in San Mateo, and rentals in the $2,500-3,500/mo range): http://www.zillow.com/homes/san-mateo,-ca_rb/ http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Palo-Alto-CA/26374_rid/...
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#184pg, please disable polls. They seem to give no useful info whatsoever, while taking up valuable front page real estate.
Don't forget that HN users upvoted it.
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#185Not based in SV. 90k USD, based in Hong Kong.
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I work as junior software engineer in central London and my salary is £26.000 before taxes. I think I am underpaid but there are a lot of benefits (gym, breakfast, friday lunch, office in Soho), so I can't complain.
In a similar situation to you, what is included in your role as a 'junior' if you don't mind me asking?
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Graduate software engineer jobs in the UK hit £30,000 at the very top end. From the experience of friends in the industry, £24,000-26,000 seems more realistic.
I work as junior software engineer in central London and my salary is £26.000 before taxes. I think I am underpaid but there are a lot of benefits (gym, breakfast, friday lunch, office in Soho), so I can't complain.
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37 / 511 (7.25%) are worth greater than $40MM, and that doesn't take into account that many are too young to be decided yet [1]. Not sure if that confirms or refutes your comment (were you being cheeky?), but at least it's a source rather than a statistic without evidence. [1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/26/paul-graham-37-y-combinator...
Being worth something and seeing cold hard cash are 2 different things.
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In a similar situation to you, what is included in your role as a 'junior' if you don't mind me asking?
A year after I graduated I got my first role in London at £27000 for a dev role (one above junior). This was an enterprise java role and in the first year I worked in a team of 3 building a custom CMS (it was a telecoms publishing house) and then a BI platform. My pay moved up fairly quickly over the years but I don't think I know even a CTO here who earns more than £90000. The SF salaries do sound crazy high.
Enterprise Java has fairly high supply of candidates, and often the companies do not value people much, so it is probably a low pay area.
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#190pg, please disable polls. They seem to give no useful info whatsoever, while taking up valuable front page real estate.