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Low. Much too low. Going rate starts in the low 100s and has no super hard cap. 80/hr overseas, or in less urban parts of the US is pretty standard. I’d question the reason for staying, though, since finding higher paying remote work is pretty easy these days…
$80 an hour is a salary of $166,400
Typical FAANG base salary for entry level junior is about that, not counting stock.
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Too low? Too high?
Low. Much too low. Going rate starts in the low 100s and has no super hard cap. 80/hr overseas, or in less urban parts of the US is pretty standard. I’d question the reason for staying, though, since finding higher paying remote work is pretty easy these days…
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$80 an hour is a salary of $166,400
Yup. Typical FAANG base salary for entry level junior is about that, not counting stock.
> SWE II (Entry Level)
> Base: $133K
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BTW, why are you applying just for internships? I checked out your (non-forked) github repos and you're definitely better than I was as an intern. It's not senior engineer level, but you could definitely go for at least a junior eng position for sure. God knows we hire much worse junior FE engineers than that. Or are you interviewing for FAANG(-like) positions only? edit: small tip though, I would rename the App2.js…
regex is overrated, real programmers parse XML with bash. #sarcasm #seenitinthewild
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Yup. Typical FAANG base salary for entry level junior is about that, not counting stock.
That’s so easy to refute… https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-en... > SWE II (Entry Level) > Base: $133K
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BTW, why are you applying just for internships? I checked out your (non-forked) github repos and you're definitely better than I was as an intern. It's not senior engineer level, but you could definitely go for at least a junior eng position for sure. God knows we hire much worse junior FE engineers than that. Or are you interviewing for FAANG(-like) positions only? edit: small tip though, I would rename the App2.js…
regex is overrated, real programmers parse XML with bash. #sarcasm #seenitinthewild
Andrew here. Connor, thanks for releasing this on the orange site. This story is also more fun from my position. I've been applying to internships and interviewing every week. They're mostly rejections. They're the same questions over and over with minor variation (sorry to top comment for "impersonating" your comment style). My days are deteriorating from a colorful sphere down to two points. In fact, down to two po…
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My kid chose this approach. He had a mix of startup and bigger (not mega-) company experience and chose FAANG internship because they have the infrastructure to make an internship productive. This was from some advice he received. By "infrastructure" it's not just code (CI, tools, etc) but personnel, how they come up with projects, etc. New grads or still-undergrads may have a lot of programming experience but none o…
I've supervised a ton of internships, and was an academic before that. The success of internships is largely preordained by the quality of the mentor. Specifically: careful project selection, good advising particularly in the first few weeks, and political/social capital to translate internships into offers (both at the company and elsewhere). Interns can screw things up, and in rare cases heroically rescue an intern…
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BTW, why are you applying just for internships? I checked out your (non-forked) github repos and you're definitely better than I was as an intern. It's not senior engineer level, but you could definitely go for at least a junior eng position for sure. God knows we hire much worse junior FE engineers than that. Or are you interviewing for FAANG(-like) positions only? edit: small tip though, I would rename the App2.js…
> also: do not use regex for parsing XML HE COMES! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way/
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If I can play devil's advocate for a moment... if the company gets decent work, the non-US participant gets better (and fairer, globally) pay compared to what they'd get locally, and the US participant takes care of the "soft" side of the operation... who's getting hurt? I can't deny that something smells skeevy about this and I don't think I could ever trust a random foreign developer who I haven't built up a solid…
There's a related scheme that I've seriously considered a time or two. I'm a pretty good software engineer, and they pay me very well, but I've got absolute shit executive functioning skills. Task management, remembering to email people back, and the like are challenging to me. It has occurred to me that a full time personal assistant in my area typically makes about $50,000/year. I think there's a decent chance that…
Sibling comments mentions that delegation should be basic in modern society, but I can't help but wonder why the following is true:
> ...since there's zero chance they'd get me such an assistant and similarly zero chance they'd let me pay for my own.
Instead of allowing everyone to delegate we somehow fixate on getting the all-in-one package super employee. I'm curious if the HR complexity is the reason to avoid this.