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Re: Ask HN: High Paying Programming Jobs

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Post by PragmaticPulp »

High paying jobs are more about going to the right companies in the right industry and delivering quality results. A lot of the high paying jobs right now aren’t necessarily in the most buzzword-heavy job descriptions.

Chasing arbitrary buzzwords alone doesn’t really career results. It takes more than a few programming skills to make a good career developer.

Re: Ask HN: High Paying Programming Jobs

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Post by sainib »

beckingz wrote: post #2

All of them. regular application development is the easier to get though.

Agreed. However, commoditized skill pays less. I have done frontend, backend (several programming languages) distributed data processing, cloud, cybersec (blue team), DevOps etc. I am looking for areas that pay higher than 150 an hour. Appreciate the response

Re: Ask HN: High Paying Programming Jobs

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Post by sainib »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #3

High paying jobs are more about going to the right companies in the right industry and delivering quality results. A lot of the high paying jobs right now aren’t necessarily in the most buzzword-heavy job descriptions. Chasing arbitrary buzzwords alone doesn’t really career results. It takes more than a few programming skills to make a good career developer.

I've been doing tech for 23 years and done many diff things. just looking to get different perspectives. Newer tech always pays higher as long as there's enough adoption but not enough supply.

Re: Ask HN: High Paying Programming Jobs

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Post by sainib »

duped wrote: post #6

You have the wrong idea. It's not skills that pay, it's companies. Learn to crush the interview circuit for the companies paying 300k+. There aren't that many.

Thanks duped. Your answer gives me a different angle to think about. Could you expand on "crush the interview circuit"?

Re: Ask HN: High Paying Programming Jobs

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Post by duped »

sainib wrote: post #7
duped wrote: post #6

You have the wrong idea. It's not skills that pay, it's companies. Learn to crush the interview circuit for the companies paying 300k+. There aren't that many.

Thanks duped. Your answer gives me a different angle to think about. Could you expand on "crush the interview circuit"?

There are a handful of companies that pay exceedingly well (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Uber, and a handful of others). Their hiring and interview practices are well documented across the internet.

The website levels.fyi will give you some insight into which companies can afford the rates you're talking about.

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