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Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

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Wow, after ~90 submissions there have been 0 female-identified entries :/

I'm one of the only women I know who posts here. I'm afraid it's not a particularly friendly community for women, and it does get old seeing the same stupid flamewars about gender and women in the industry and feminism et cetera ad infinitum.

Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

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I'm just wondering why a lot of these people with tons of experience are settling for sub-$70k jobs. Is there a reason for this?

I was hired for $65k or so after a 6-month job search left me financially drained. There was the promise that typical raises could go into the 10% or more per year region, with a possible promotion to a Senior Software Engineer position, but after a sister company had a poor year of growth and a lawsuit hit my company this past year, I'm at-or-under $70k. It's awful, especially when given that I work 44-48 hours per…

That was a sad paragraph. :( If you want to lose the 80 lbs without too much difficulty, there's always https://www.reddit.com/r/keto

Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

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Does anyone know why engineering salaries are so low in Chicago? Especially with regards to city size / cost of living / amount of tech? It baffled me when I lived there, and it still baffles me when I don't.

To add another reason beyond just cost of living: Chicago has a bunch of really high quality engineering schools nearby that produce an absolute ton of engineers. You have people from UIUC, Northwestern, Purdue, IUB, UWMadison, and Michigan all moving to chicago after graduation. It creates a sort of glut in the labor supply.

A lot of them cannot or just don't want to move far away for more pay. A lot of the grads are from chicago or smaller midwestern cities.

Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

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Does anyone know why engineering salaries are so low in Chicago? Especially with regards to city size / cost of living / amount of tech? It baffled me when I lived there, and it still baffles me when I don't.

Easier to hire here, supposedly. Fewer tech firms by comparison to SF/NY -> less competition for applicants. I'm in Chicago making ~95k and these threads the last couple days have been ever so mildly depressing, with people graduating same year as me and making $323k.

I left Chicago for a job and I totally regret it. 95k in Chicago is a really good living.

Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

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post #12

Wow, after ~90 submissions there have been 0 female-identified entries :/

I'm one of the only women I know who posts here. I'm afraid it's not a particularly friendly community for women, and it does get old seeing the same stupid flamewars about gender and women in the industry and feminism et cetera ad infinitum.

>"I'm afraid it's not a particularly friendly community for women"

Anti-female, sexist, or insensitive-about-female-issue posts regularly get downvoted and flagged, from what I've seen.

Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

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I'm sorry, how exactly was it fixed? Now I can mark 'Other', but as a gender-fluid this really should be more a slider

And now I'm being downvoted by pro-Trump bigots

Please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.

Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

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post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm one of the only women I know who posts here. I'm afraid it's not a particularly friendly community for women, and it does get old seeing the same stupid flamewars about gender and women in the industry and feminism et cetera ad infinitum.

> "I'm afraid it's not a particularly friendly community for women" Anti-female, sexist, or insensitive-about-female-issue posts regularly get downvoted and flagged, from what I've seen.

The worst posts certainly get downvoted and flagged. The problem is the posts that sound reasonable but aren't. It gets tiring and somewhat depressing trying to educate people about the same things over and over again.
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