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for these rates, how long would the contract be?
You mean in Prague? I don't have experience (by choice) with projects that span more than a year. I prefer to do several short term projects (~3-6 months) at a time.
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You mean in Prague? I don't have experience (by choice) with projects that span more than a year. I prefer to do several short term projects (~3-6 months) at a time.
wow that's awesome. In Canada, I haven't seen the rates that high for Canadian companies.. I guess I am not looking hard enough!
I should really look into what is to be known to get 100 USD/hour for medium term projects in Prague. I would be able to live from 2 to 3 month project for full year.
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(Disclosure: I work for Triplebyte and helped publish our salary dataset recently.) $150K is below the median base salary offer we see for senior software engineers. See https://triplebyte.com/software-engineer-salary -- with a few notes: * This is base salary only. Total compensation is significantly higher once you include factors like equity compensation, bonuses, benefits. * This does vary a lot with stage of com…
I would love to see something like "true salary" where people can enter the actual hours they work, vacation days they get and salary (+ taxation as an option). If I compare on a per hour basis and factor in vacation time quite a few good looking US salaries become a lot less attractive for say a French software developer who is working a 35h workweek. It's especially interesting if you compare "boring" development j…
It's fairly atypical for French to work only 35h a week. I've never seen that anywhere in tech in the private sector.
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Senior in this context often means >5 years. So if you are 30 you typically count as senior. I believe ~50% of my >10k coworkers are senior or above.
So, if you hit Senior at 5 years, what’s after that? What about the guy with 25+ years of experience?
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I'm tired of posting and re-posting the links, but according to Glassdoor and Salary.com, median software engineer salary in the bay area is around ~110K. You can criticize the online source but at least it's a data point besides "I totally know a guy working at BigCorp who makes $200K" EDIT: Friends, this is what happens when you post before coffee. As ams6110 points out I'm in violent agreement with the person I'm…
Right, so at the very least half are making less than $110,000 which is $40,000 less than the "everyone is making $150,000" in all major cities. There are a small percentage making a ton of money, and most making normal sub six figure salaries.
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I don't agree with your premise of "remote workers being worth less (even if slightly) because there's less efficient collaboration". The last part is only true because most of today's organizations and processes are organized this way. Objectively, there's very little (outside of the individuals ability/willingness to work) that can't be optimized for remote work using modern technology. I've been working remote for…
> The last part is only true because most of today's organizations and processes are organized this way. Objectively, there's very little (outside of the individuals ability/willingness to work) that can't be optimized for remote work using modern technology. Only the most important one: communication. Its like saying you dont need to meet someone in person before marrying them, because all you need to know can be as…
Massive telecommuting is quite recent habit thanks to technology advancements and it still needs some paradigm shift especially on management level. Such shift had to happen in the past with introduction of computers in offices, on-line shopping, on-line banking, selling insurances etc.
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Is it just me that thinks working on the beach is awful? Too much light, sand, and heat to be able to concentrate Even if you're working in a coastal hut, nothing beats good ergonomics of a real office
Worked in tel aviv for a few weeks in "remote work for a customer , from a nice environment". Here's your schedule : walk along the beach to go and pick up your breakfast, back to your place or stay at the terrasse for some work, then grab a sandwich at lunch, go for a swim. Work a few hours again, then swim before the sun goes down. It's a very addictive schedule. The only downside is that you'll be alone pretty muc…
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Senior in this context often means >5 years. So if you are 30 you typically count as senior. I believe ~50% of my >10k coworkers are senior or above.
So, if you hit Senior at 5 years, what’s after that? What about the guy with 25+ years of experience?
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wow that's awesome. In Canada, I haven't seen the rates that high for Canadian companies.. I guess I am not looking hard enough!
To be honest, I have never seen rates so high in Prague either. Very good offer for me would be 42 USD/hour for longer term project, 35 being more standard (yet still good). I currently live outside of Prague (regional city) and salary of employed developer (I know, not fair comparison) here are less than 14 USD/hour. Actually when I claimed I would not work for that much, I was told everyone wished for that kind of…
You have to transform yourself into a consultant, being a contractor locks you into the rates you mentioned (the ceiling is around $50 to $70; big agencies are able to sell contractors to enterprises for around $80). It's not for everyone though, the rate is higher for a reason, you have to do a lot more things yourself and many devs don't enjoy doing them. Narrowing you specialization helps very much; it's also helpful to choose only a few (around 2) verticals (e.g. logistics, material production, ...) that you work in and mention that to everyone.
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The words "total compensation" should just be banned from these discussions. It conflates a principle measure (base salary) with intangibles such as RSUs (a future value) and benefits. Without comparing specific companies it is impossible to say which is better (unless there is an extreme variance).
RSUs for public companies are effectively cash, as you can generally sell them immediately at the time when they vest. The value isn't fixed, but if the company is doing well that's a benefit to employees.