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People on HN look at everything not just from a regional perspective, but that of a very small clique out of all of the professional programmers. FAANG companie
by perl4ever 7y ago
People on HN look at everything not just from a regional perspective, but that of a very small clique out of all of the professional programmers. FAANG companies have plenty of work that is beneath their SWEs, which they outsource, in some cases, to American companies that have a mix of American employees and offshore. They hire people in the US around $40-60K and increase pay very slowly. Nobody gets paid $100K, because (a) if you switch jobs, you only get an incremental bump in salary, due to not having the right kind of title and pedigree, and (b) you're competing with much lower paid offshore employees. Best case is $80-90K after ten years and/or relocating to a major metro area.
- JDiculous 7y agoInteresting. Any examples of this kind of lower valued work?
- perl4ever 7y agoI mean, it's not precisely lower valued. It's valued low enough by the in-house SWEs, that they aren't going to do a good enough job to prevent embarrassing headlines.[1] Therefore, the outsourcing company isn't going to charge much less.[2] At the same time, they provide insulation from responsibility if something does go wrong. So they can pay much less and capture the difference. The cultural gap[3] prevents their employees from working directly for companies like their clients so competition doesn't equalize wages. [1]This is a reference to particular events of which I'm aware. [2]e.g. an hourly rate equating to $250K/year, maybe more. [3]I mean nerd culture, not "real" culture.