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I would argue that there is a considerable amount of loose change floating around in the bay area tech scene that makes it possible for even young companies to
by seangrogg 10y ago
I would argue that there is a considerable amount of loose change floating around in the bay area tech scene that makes it possible for even young companies to pay large salaries to developers. $100k is pretty common for L1 developers, $120k is roughly average for anyone that can show they've built something before.
I can't speak to a lot of programs, but HR is roughly 800 hours of cultivating people with "enough experience to write higher order functions" into - specifically - web developers. These students implemented a binary tree in their first week, wrote relatively secure chat apps in their third, know React and Angular by the sixth, and have 4 side-projects (one of which over a full month) by the end. Meanwhile, CS grads have been taught that JavaScript is a toy language that can't solve a problem of any reasonable complexity and are instead competing for enterprise Java positions amongst themselves.
Is there a bubble? Probably. But there's also a market for individuals with a set of skills that isn't being met by our university system.
- franciscop 10y agoTotally real question, could you please ballpark estimate from a simple glance at my github how much I could be making in the US? I'm curious to know what's there to offer: http://github.com/franciscop/ http://github.com/franciscop/ If you want to adjust it with some extra notes: winner of worldwide NASA competition; degree in Industrial Engineering in Spain with final year project on Neural Networks in Tokyo University; organizer of one of the biggest Maker community in Spain (Makers UPV); 2 years work experience (besides non-profit)
- onlyrealcuzzo 10y agoIn Los Angeles, right now, assuming you're qualified to work in the U.S. and speak fluent English, you could easily make $100k at the right company--maybe $130k, which goes a pretty long way. SF, maybe add as much as $20k. In either market, if you're remotely competent, you'd be able to get a job extremely easily.
- seangrogg 10y agoI've not ever really had my github brought up in interviews nor known anybody else that has. If you could direct me towards a resume, though, I'd be totally happy to try and estimate.
- crystalPalace 10y agoMy github account was brought up in a recent technical interview. The hiring manager felt that my account lacked professionalism because I had several >= 1 year old, unfinished repositories.
- nitrogen 10y agoThat is... bizarre. He should look at the abandoned internal repos of the average software company's experiments and realign his expectations with reality.
- seangrogg 10y agoAmen, not every github project turns into a popular OS project.
- taneq 10y agoMaybe he thought it was a dedicated portfolio repo rather than just "this is where I keep my stuff"?
- crystalPalace 10y agoI think that was their thought process. My personal Github is a bit of a graveyard/dumping ground but I saw this as a wakeup call and got rid of a bunch of forked repos and combined some unfinished projects into other repos.
- franciscop 10y agoUnfortunately I don't have a decent or updated resume (missing 1 year), but here's something: http://francisco.io/resume.pdf http://francisco.io/resume.pdf