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No, he's not serious. Actual salaries are double-to-triple what he's saying.
Wow, where would you find triple? I've never heard of a developer making 180K in DC.
It's fully realistic for non-management senior engineers to earn up to $150k, however.
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No, he's not serious. Actual salaries are double-to-triple what he's saying.
Wow, where would you find triple? I've never heard of a developer making 180K in DC.
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Personnel retention is easy - just demonstrate on any level that the contributions of the workforce is appreciated. Since I'm in the DC area too, with clearance, the number you're throwing around are a bit of a stretch. We've got junior developers in the high $30K range and senior in the mid $60K range.
Personnel retention is easy - just demonstrate on any level that the contributions of the workforce is appreciated. I think you may be painting a simplistic picture, and are making an implicit statement about my experience. I have never worked for a software company that didn't value it's developers or their contributions. Quite the contrary, in fact. Benefits, high salaries, flexible hours, work from home all on top…
High salary: 30K starting with sr devs going for around 60K to 70K
Flexible hours: 730 to 430 M-F, with Wednesday onsite support needed from 6pm to 10pm (you are allowed up show up no later than 9AM on Thursday)
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No, he's not serious. Actual salaries are double-to-triple what he's saying.
Yes, I am serious. Welcome to the world of being a contractor working for the government.
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Wow, where would you find triple? I've never heard of a developer making 180K in DC.
Right, 180K for any developer is high (hence the double-to-triple estimate). Not inconceivable for an architect or manager though in certain companies, which is a possible career path for any developer.
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No, he's not serious. Actual salaries are double-to-triple what he's saying.
Yes, I am serious. Welcome to the world of being a contractor working for the government.
On the one hand you have startups & companies with Bay Area caliber talent, including more high profile ventures such as OPower and Living Social. On the other end of the spectrum are budget web-dev PHP shops that maintain web pages for government agencies.
Nonetheless, I've never heard of salaries as low as those you're quoting - and they're most certainly not the norm.
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Personnel retention is easy - just demonstrate on any level that the contributions of the workforce is appreciated. I think you may be painting a simplistic picture, and are making an implicit statement about my experience. I have never worked for a software company that didn't value it's developers or their contributions. Quite the contrary, in fact. Benefits, high salaries, flexible hours, work from home all on top…
Benefits: Trying being assigned a practitioner closest to the work location so you'll miss as little work as possible; or benefits that are project dependent (some projects support a 401k, some don't) High salary: 30K starting with sr devs going for around 60K to 70K Flexible hours: 730 to 430 M-F, with Wednesday onsite support needed from 6pm to 10pm (you are allowed up show up no later than 9AM on Thursday)
That being the case, I'm increasingly unsure as to why you were lecturing me on employee retention.
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Yes, I am serious. Welcome to the world of being a contractor working for the government.
I think part of the disconnect here is due to the fact that the development community in the DC area is really quite broad. On the one hand you have startups & companies with Bay Area caliber talent, including more high profile ventures such as OPower and Living Social. On the other end of the spectrum are budget web-dev PHP shops that maintain web pages for government agencies. Nonetheless, I've never heard of salar…
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I think part of the disconnect here is due to the fact that the development community in the DC area is really quite broad. On the one hand you have startups & companies with Bay Area caliber talent, including more high profile ventures such as OPower and Living Social. On the other end of the spectrum are budget web-dev PHP shops that maintain web pages for government agencies. Nonetheless, I've never heard of salar…
Good point, but remember that between hot-shot startups (e.g., livingsocial as the poster-child) and budget PHP gov't website shops are the contractors that design a lot of aerospace guidance and control software for NASA, the Navy, etc... Also NSA is a huge employer, and a lot of contractors for the NSA and NASA (among many other agencies) have extremely technical and high-level software and hardware engineering pos…
While I've never worked for a contractor, in my experience their salaries are quite competitive - although they may be strict about degree requirements both for better and worse.
I'm no ninja-rockstar! I'm a cybernetic Viking berzerker, battling each and every bug and feature to the death. I might have scars from my many encounters, but I won... eventually. My software is a well honed and polished, though sometimes nicked, piece of work. Seriously guys, ninjas were criminals! They were outlaws that killed mainly via indirect confrontation, OCD-like planning, and typically poison. They deserve…