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It doesn't require an undergrad. I was in the US Army as a UAV pilot for 4 years, got out and got a job as a Unix Admin. I'm now a successful software engineer.
by SEJeff 8y ago
It doesn't require an undergrad. I was in the US Army as a UAV pilot for 4 years, got out and got a job as a Unix Admin. I'm now a successful software engineer. Also, $240k is not obscenely high. Top end google engineers make more and that's about normal starting comp for a very talented engineer in certain segments of finance.
- bigiain 8y agoIn one sense it's clearly not obscenely high - it's the median salary after all - _half_ of Facebook's employees make more than that. But from the perspective of someone struggling to make minimum wage, I'll be it 100% is obscene...
- toomanybeersies 8y agoIt doesn't strictly require an undergrad, no, but it helps to have one. And $240k is very high for a non-management job, and compared to the median income and the minimum wage for the USA is obscenely high. Median household income is ~$60k, and median personal income is ~$30k. Minimum wage in the USA is around $15k. In my books, 8 times the median income, or 16 times the minimum wage, is obscenely high. That kind of income disparity is not good for society.
- SEJeff 8y agoMy point was that it is not high in the world of software development. There are ranges much higher than the GP's stated $240k. I work in an industry where that is the case (finance).