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It's disingenuous to place this figure there without specifying the location. Even in places with high COL, 91k as an entry-level front end dev is unrealistic i
by fm95 8y ago
It's disingenuous to place this figure there without specifying the location. Even in places with high COL, 91k as an entry-level front end dev is unrealistic if they have no prior experience. And if this is assuming you'd be remote, that's even more ridiculous. 91k off the bat with 0 prior experience in the industry working from wherever you want sounds like a fantasy.
- sokoloff 8y ago> Even in places with high COL, 91k as an entry-level front end dev is unrealistic if they have no prior experience. In the metro Boston area, fresh college grads are getting $100K+bonus typically, with upside from there. I think $91K is not at all unrealistic.
- Latteland 8y ago130k plus is the typical salary with a college grad in a top company. We are a startup in Seattle, not a unicorn, you've probably not heard of us, and we pay 135k + options for new college hires. We are told our comp is too low by people.
- strikelaserclaw 8y agoI mean those are your cream of the crop type candidates i'm assuming not a person who just got pumped out of a 12 week bootcamp. I would assume < 10% of people with no experience entering the field get 100k+. Even 10% might be a large number.
- Latteland 8y agoThey are very good bachelors. I don't think someone with 12 weeks in bootcamp can pass the interview bar. We ask about multithreaded programming in C++, a series of programming challenges, and about theory of computer science, software engineering principals. Nothing that I wouldn't expect from my previous experience with fang like companies.
- mattmanser 8y agoWhy would a frontend dev need to know multithreaded programming in C++, knowledge which a tiny percentage of startups need? FAANG are recruiting high-level programmers, not people hooking up forms to APIs.
- Latteland 8y agoI think I missed something - my startup needs backend devs, not frontend.
- gaspoweredcat 8y agoseriously? evidently things are very different over there, here in the UK youd be lucky to get much over £25-30k in an entry level job and if you dont have a few years experience under your belt then you better be prepared for a long fight to get a position at all
- sokoloff 8y agoDead serious. I equally don't understand the EU/UK market for programmers. I think US salaries seem unsustainably high and European salaries unsustainably low, especially in large cities...