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> Salaries Are salaries that bad? I know a bunch of developers in the Wellington area (and used to be one), and most are making around ~100k USD a year. Yea, i
by santaclaus 10y ago
> Salaries
Are salaries that bad? I know a bunch of developers in the Wellington area (and used to be one), and most are making around ~100k USD a year. Yea, it isn't Bay Area Google money, but also not terrible.
> the size and quality of the roads
I can't speak too much for the south island, but on the north island the roads seemed fine. The roads in San Francisco and Oakland where I live now are way worse then I ever experienced in NZ.
- lacampbell 10y ago140,000+ NZD for permanent devs in Wellington? Doing what? From what I can tell that's management salary in Wellington.
- santaclaus 10y agoIn 2014 I was making 141 NZD writing C++ at Weta Digital (I had colleagues breaking 150). They were mostly contract jobs renewed annually, but I didn't know of any tech people there who were not renewed.
- lacampbell 10y agoInteresting. Is this C++ anyone could do, or were they wanting maths and physics qualifications? That salary doesn't sound far fetched for a contract though.
- santaclaus 10y agoIt was a mix. There were definitely MS/PhD level maths people, but also a lot of people writing more systems oriented code to deal with the metric tones of data that they generate, people writing code to specific APIs for software packages that they use, etc.
- cashmonkey85 10y agoThat's likely an exception being paid for out of deep Hollywood pockets