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For a decent salary, lots of people. Do the 9-5 and spend the rest of the time on hobbies or with family. And why not?
by gaius 10y ago
For a decent salary, lots of people. Do the 9-5 and spend the rest of the time on hobbies or with family. And why not?
- pinaceae 10y agosimply not true. become a hiring manager and you'll see. you don't even get applications for those jobs by American CS grads or professionals - before any salary numbers are in play. we run analysis in our HR pipeline trackers - remove Asians and Eastern Europeans and its crickets. walk into Google, Facebook, Salesforce offices and see for yourself. i know this is super unpopular on HN were everyone is a superstar coder, but facts are fact. 90% of software work is undesirable and unfulfilling - and Westerners feel entitled to life-changing work. I just had a 26 year-old US coder quit because he does not want to come to work every day anymore, he now wants to travel Nepal and do something radical. Great for him - while a 1000 less-fortunate-by- birthplace people would give a leg for his job.
- gaius 10y agoyou don't even get applications for those jobs by American CS grads or professionals I just had a 26 year-old US coder I think you may be looking at this through a very narrow perspective of SF 20-something startup culture. But look at any other branch of engineering - civil, electrical, mechanical etc - and the backbone of those fields is 30- 40 and 50- somethings who work normal office hours.