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That's not what the data actually shows: https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salaries/san-francisco-senior-software-engineer-salary-SRCH_IL.0,13_IM759_KO14,38.htm?country

• mncharity 9y ago
  So some years ago, a company you'd recognize in node.js land, said at a meeting that they were trying to find a javascript expert. Nagged enroute to a bar afterwards, I explained that I wasn't one. I'd never written a full javascript implementation, only some hack bits and pieces. It had been years since I followed committee discussions. I'd not even seen the latest draft. And that I was mostly using coffeescript these days. They replied... coffeescript is ok, we can train you in javascript. At which point I realized that they were using "javascript expert" to mean something very, very different, than I was. Perhaps kcorbitt's "a good senior developer" means something different than glassdoor's "senior software engineer"?
• kcorbitt 9y ago
  I guess it depends on what your cutoff is for "good". I can say from firsthand experience that senior developers at Facebook or Google are hitting those numbers pretty easily.
• closeparen 9y ago
  The self-reported data averaged over the life of the company, sure.