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If they're suddenly asking you to log your hours, they're looking for a reason to terminate/replace you.
fascinating
Check out blind and levels.fyi to get a sense for where the industry is at. Location seems to be a factor for some companies but not for others. It’s best to have multiple offers on hand when deciding.
IME if location is a factor, it's usually a different of 10-15%, so it's not like you're making $200k in SF and $80k in Ohio. More like 200k in SF and 180k in Ohio. YMMV of course.
I’ve seen the comments about “just go to FAANG” and it’s one of those odd dualities I see on HN. On some threads, I see comments full of how their interviews are IQ proxies and how FAANG only hires the best or top X% so it’s not viable for most devs. On the other hand there are plenty of comments that just suggest casually walking into a FAANG job. So which is it?
If they're suddenly asking you to log your hours, they're looking for a reason to terminate/replace you.
A previous job made us track our hours so that we could "improve estimates," but mostly it only made people unhappy.
If they're suddenly asking you to log your hours, they're looking for a reason to terminate/replace you.
If they're suddenly asking you to log your hours, they're looking for a reason to terminate/replace you.
What? My company recently added it to help us measure % of time on bugs vs features, and by section of the code base. This is a very very big assumption to make.