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Yeah, but if you can make $300k a year, you're likely not dedicating your software engineering career to fixing bugs. Also, you can go a few miles south to Los
by joeblau 9y ago
Yeah, but if you can make $300k a year, you're likely not dedicating your software engineering career to fixing bugs. Also, you can go a few miles south to Los Gatos and work at Netflix and make $400k/year.
- linkregister 9y ago$400k/year? is that for Principal Engineers and Directors? What would a senior eng make there?
- joeblau 9y agoI think that's for Sr. Engineers++. What I heard is that they do an all in compensation plan so your equity, bonus, and salary are all rolled into your salary and then you decide what you want to do with it. On Glassdoor that doesn't seem to match what I was told though.
- abakker 9y agoI am not an engineer, but from my non-technical POV, this seems ridiculous. Is the cult of building new software really so much more attractive than making the software actually work? I mean, I think this attitude perfectly encapsulates why Apple has problems. Is bug fixing much harder than building the systems from the beginning? Is the difficulty in reading and checking code for errors really hiding the fact that this "unsexy" work of bug fixing involves the actual difficulty? If, in any other field you found people that only wanted to make first drafts, you'd call them copywriters and designers, not engineers. And even if it is totally normal to eschew bug fixing in favor of drafting, isn't there a salary that would cause people to do it? If so, Apple should just pay that and hire those people - it'll still pay off in the long run.