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This isn't true. Go/Python/non-C++ can get you dozens of jobs with very high total comp, well over anything for C++. A Senior Software Engineer at any FANG will
by ping_pong 6y ago
This isn't true. Go/Python/non-C++ can get you dozens of jobs with very high total comp, well over anything for C++. A Senior Software Engineer at any FANG will get you over 400k/yr TC. Getting an equivalent job with C++ would be much harder.
- boring_twenties 6y agoI was under the impression that one would need C++ to get one of those 400k+ FAANG jobs. Obviously, I could be wrong. I've never worked at one myself, but they do hit me up from time to time, and seem to be mostly interested in my C++ experience. As I said in my disclaimer, my actual experience is very dated at this point, but a strong C++ developer could earn 400k+ even way back in 2011 in the NYC financial industry. Back then, I don't think I'd heard of any Python developers making much more than 150k. Nowadays, the people I know working in C++ in NYC finance are all making significantly more than 400k.
- brandmeyer 6y agoHate to break it to you, but GOOG is mostly a C++ and Java shop with some Go presence.
- ping_pong 6y agoGoogle is most definitely not "mostly C++". Java I can believe is a majority, but there's a plethora of languages used there.
- brandmeyer 6y agoYou misunderstand me: I'm not claiming its "mostly C++", I'm claiming that its "mostly C++ and Java". Python isn't zero, but its very far down the list, both in lines of code and machine cycles spent.
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- joshuamorton 6y agoCertainly, although you can work there using almost entirely python (I did for two years, although I'm now having to use more and more c++ and java as my work shifts to be infra that involves products instead of just raw infra)
- pjmlp 6y agoI do mostly Java, .NET and Web, but when I need to plug into native code, C++ is always the answer.