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A senior engineer is someone 3 years into their career no longer willing to work for paltry wages. Stop glorifying something every mid 20s in the profession des
by pyrrhotech 7y ago
A senior engineer is someone 3 years into their career no longer willing to work for paltry wages. Stop glorifying something every mid 20s in the profession deserves. It only serves to keep the power in the hands of the corporate elites and the wage pressure down on an already meek, mostly economically illiterate and unconfident group of otherwise intelligent and productive individuals. If you want to write an article worshipping your ideal of a nerdy super-hero, make it about senior architects at FAANG earning 1 million+ per year instead.
- j88439h84 7y ago> senior architects at FAANG earning 1 million+ per year instead. How many of those are there?
- dropit_sphere 7y agoNot nearly enough!
- alexandercrohde 7y agoThat's a great way to look at it. Until people look at tech and see it as a good top tier career and finance as a fallback, we have progress to make.
- c0restraint 7y agoWell they aren’t called senior architects. More like distinguished engineers. And there are very few
- convolvatron 7y agoI kind of agree with your sentiment about trying to upend the narrative. but as someone who has spent more than 10 times your 3 year engineer in the trenches, never made closure to 1M a year, and tries to ascribe to the qualities expressed in the post...I can't help but feel a little undervalued by your representation