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In Houston sr. devs(3+ years of experience if your driven, 7 if your not) are easily making 100k+. And most devs who are on hacker news could easily make 140k+

In Houston sr. devs(3+ years of experience if your driven, 7 if your not) are easily making 100k+. And most devs who are on hacker news could easily make 140k+.

tylorr 9y ago
"And anyone who is on hacker news could easily make 140k+" If only it were that easy.
- JamesBarney 9y ago
  You're right, not everyone, but last time I talked to a recruiter they said good .NET tech leads were making 140k-160k, and 6 month contract gigs were paying 60-90/hr. The good devs I know are all making 120k-150k while the mediocre devs I know with 5+ years of experience are making 100k+.
bdcravens 9y ago
I'll second the comment about $100k in Houston, though in general most of the jobs are in health care or energy, and you'll find yourself doing something like .NET or ColdFusion. I do think you overestimate the average skill level on HN though :-)
- JamesBarney 9y ago
  It's true. I write enterprise .NET for health care and energy companies :). But you get to write some cool things. The last three things I built were A system that takes sensor data from wells across the world, runs them through a physics engine, and displays those results to users across the world in real time. A web app that lets users easily write complex queries to retrieve cancer tissue information across multiple departments in a large research institution. An app to upgrade an entire codebase using a compiler to figure out the semantic meaning of different code snippets and transform them to the new version. So it's not all boring :). And I haven't met a mediocre dev who was familiar with Hacker News. Honestly I've thought about replacing my tech interviews with one question "Have you heard of Hacker News?"
- tluyben2 9y ago
  What is wrong with .NET? For some reason it is not sexy here but c# and certainly f# are great languages and large parts of the stack is open source. Not quite sure why it is seen as something negative especially when something like JS is seen as positive.
  - bdcravens 9y ago
    > What is wrong with .NET? Nothing at all. I've done quite a bit of it (ColdFusion too!). Nothing wrong with health care or energy industries either. I do think there's a lot of the HN crowd that only have eyes for the hip languages or fun startups though, whether it makes sense or not.
    - tluyben2 9y ago
      Let's make .NET hip again... Rise4fun, f# and yes, f* are seriously cool. For any self professed language freak. The framework is robust, fast and now available everywhere. I write and compile large projects on Linux and working on a tool chain to compile iOS Xamarin on Linux. It is very nice. And Bridge.Net is very mature as well; all our core libraries compile with only a few injects and it is not too big either compared to what I see most people doing online. I do a lot of JS because legacy but it really hurts when you have such nice languages and tools.

In Houston sr. devs(3+ years of experience if your driven, 7 if your not) are easily making 100k+. And most devs who are on hacker news could easily make 140k+.

tylorr 9y ago

"And anyone who is on hacker news could easily make 140k+" If only it were that easy.

JamesBarney 9y ago
You're right, not everyone, but last time I talked to a recruiter they said good .NET tech leads were making 140k-160k, and 6 month contract gigs were paying 60-90/hr. The good devs I know are all making 120k-150k while the mediocre devs I know with 5+ years of experience are making 100k+.

bdcravens 9y ago

I'll second the comment about $100k in Houston, though in general most of the jobs are in health care or energy, and you'll find yourself doing something like .NET or ColdFusion. I do think you overestimate the average skill level on HN though :-)

JamesBarney 9y ago
It's true. I write enterprise .NET for health care and energy companies :). But you get to write some cool things. The last three things I built were A system that takes sensor data from wells across the world, runs them through a physics engine, and displays those results to users across the world in real time. A web app that lets users easily write complex queries to retrieve cancer tissue information across multiple departments in a large research institution. An app to upgrade an entire codebase using a compiler to figure out the semantic meaning of different code snippets and transform them to the new version. So it's not all boring :). And I haven't met a mediocre dev who was familiar with Hacker News. Honestly I've thought about replacing my tech interviews with one question "Have you heard of Hacker News?"
tluyben2 9y ago
What is wrong with .NET? For some reason it is not sexy here but c# and certainly f# are great languages and large parts of the stack is open source. Not quite sure why it is seen as something negative especially when something like JS is seen as positive.
- bdcravens 9y ago
  > What is wrong with .NET? Nothing at all. I've done quite a bit of it (ColdFusion too!). Nothing wrong with health care or energy industries either. I do think there's a lot of the HN crowd that only have eyes for the hip languages or fun startups though, whether it makes sense or not.
  - tluyben2 9y ago
    Let's make .NET hip again... Rise4fun, f# and yes, f* are seriously cool. For any self professed language freak. The framework is robust, fast and now available everywhere. I write and compile large projects on Linux and working on a tool chain to compile iOS Xamarin on Linux. It is very nice. And Bridge.Net is very mature as well; all our core libraries compile with only a few injects and it is not too big either compared to what I see most people doing online. I do a lot of JS because legacy but it really hurts when you have such nice languages and tools.