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What welfare? I'm employed at-will and my performance is reviewed yearly.
You're on bigcorp welfare and you do as little work as required to not lose your benefits.
I worked in bio tech for 4 years. Amazing people and problems. Worst pay, top heavy salaries. When a phd makes 80k a year and a “ML/AI” data scientist is lucky to make 100k you won’t find any progress like software They need to cut the top heavy executive bloat, respect the mid tier with better pay
I worked as a post-doc at a pharma company in Europe, our research-based department was in need of a software engineer as our collection of crappy R/python scripts couldn't actually be linked up to any equipment or processes. HR asked what sort of salary range we were looking at, we suggested that we won't get any decent candidates for less than 70k EUR and were laughed out of the room and they decided on a 50k limit…
In most of Europe you can find a good young engineer/developer with several years of experience for €50k.
I worked in bio tech for 4 years. Amazing people and problems. Worst pay, top heavy salaries. When a phd makes 80k a year and a “ML/AI” data scientist is lucky to make 100k you won’t find any progress like software They need to cut the top heavy executive bloat, respect the mid tier with better pay
I worked as a post-doc at a pharma company in Europe, our research-based department was in need of a software engineer as our collection of crappy R/python scripts couldn't actually be linked up to any equipment or processes. HR asked what sort of salary range we were looking at, we suggested that we won't get any decent candidates for less than 70k EUR and were laughed out of the room and they decided on a 50k limit…
Different story in Switzerland where you can easy get 140k+ CHF.
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I did that for a year or so in finance. Realised I was wasting my one life. I want to be useful.
You can be paid by the company while being useful for yourself :)
> Innovation happens in fields where our ideas are limited by our means to pursue them. Citation needed. I'm pretty sure innovation is happening in all fields. > Software is no longer such a field, our brightest minds should be going elsewhere. Citation needed. Pretty sure innovation is happening in software too. This post is... utterly fact-free, and really just reality-free. It literally says nothing besides "biote…
I think a fact-based article exploring the question of whether software really does have a slowing (or just slow) pace of ideas and innovation would be much more interesting than this article, but not every article has to be factual reporting and synthesis, some can be of the form "I believe this is how the world looks, and I draw these conclusions starting from that belief".
Personally, I relate to his premise, though I'm unsure it's true. It does seem to me that there aren't many new ideas in the industry. We seem to "just" be doing things we've been able to do for a very long time, but making them more accessible to more people, more efficient (with respect to human time while not necessarily computer time), and more scalable. We seem to me to be doing a lot of streamlining but not a huge amount of innovating.
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I am employed at-will and I have yearly written proof that my employer is happy with my work.
Perhaps another way to look at this: on your tombstone it reads They had written proof that their employer was happy with their work.
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Finding a way to consult for some US companies could get you your €45k a year for half a year's worth of work; and you could start small during those weeks of paid leave. Location arbitrage.
I could do that, I think. I know someone who does that. He worked in the US for some time and went back to France consulting for both French and American companies. Lots of time off and good pay (for France). But... he is self employed, which means a significant part of his work includes sales and management. That's something I don't enjoy doing and I am very happy having a boss do it for me. He also has more tax and…
No excessive self-promoting, networking, or book keeping necessary.
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Twitter says "This is not available to you." Was this deleted, or does Twitter just not let the public see anything at all anymore?
Are you on mobile? I find that twitter can be quite uncooperative to those who aren't logged in on mobile.
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It's not black and white. I'm working remotely in New Zealand making more than 45k euros with 1 YOE and my company seems to care a lot about W/L balance. I'm sure there are also office-based US companies with good pay and W/L balance.
I will respond as a French dev working in the US since a small decade. Let’s just start by saying that back home, every worker has 5 week of pays vacation by law. Most qualify worker get 6 , and it’s not uncommon to go in the 7 or 8 with seniority. Just with that simple fact the « work life balance » a US company has to offer is kinda cute compared to what I would get automatically. Then come childcare, education and…
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It's not black and white. I'm working remotely in New Zealand making more than 45k euros with 1 YOE and my company seems to care a lot about W/L balance. I'm sure there are also office-based US companies with good pay and W/L balance.
I will respond as a French dev working in the US since a small decade. Let’s just start by saying that back home, every worker has 5 week of pays vacation by law. Most qualify worker get 6 , and it’s not uncommon to go in the 7 or 8 with seniority. Just with that simple fact the « work life balance » a US company has to offer is kinda cute compared to what I would get automatically. Then come childcare, education and…
The laws and baselines could be better for sure. But in the context of Software Engineering for a talented person it's possible to work for non-FAANG companies that pay quite well and offer things like "unlimited" vacation. Unlimited enough that up to 8 weeks a year spread out a bit is not going to cause any issues.
> how poor people afford kids in this country
They live a different life-style. Much more multi-generational and community support for child raising.