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Some people don't care so much about the money. I'm barely over the six figure mark in the bay area. I could probably make a lot more money somewhere else, but
by 0xffff2 6y ago
Some people don't care so much about the money. I'm barely over the six figure mark in the bay area. I could probably make a lot more money somewhere else, but I wouldn't get to do anything nearly as interesting as my current work.
- _benj 6y agoI don't think is about not caring about the money... it seems to me that the salary is just the manifestation of the value the company places in the individual, and thus a company that pays 1/3 of the industry average shows very little care for their engineers, at least in my book
- n4r9 6y agoThe salary is the most tangible and measurable manifestation, but it's not necessarily complete. Companies can make efforts in other ways e.g. ensuring good work-life balance (which could entail hiring more people), providing allowances for mental health, parental care etc... . All these things can become relatively very valuable once the salary crosses a minimum threshold.
- Viliam1234 6y ago> the salary is just the manifestation of the value the company places in the individual My experience confirms this. The least paid jobs I had were also the most stressful.
- flyinglizard 6y agoWhat if I told you that, more often than not, you could do your current work and get much more money? People, especially tech people, are quite awful at extracting their full value.
- wikibob 6y agoFully agree. For some reason people assume that you get paid more in order to deal with less interesting work or a worse work environment. This is completely false. You get paid more when the company values you more. The company values you more, when they make more from what you are able to contribute, on average. Highly paid engineering work environments are strongly correlated with interesting work and with good working conditions.
- reilly3000 6y agoThanks wikibob, somebody I know really needed to hear that.
- jgwil2 6y ago> For some reason people assume that you get paid more in order to deal with less interesting work or a worse work environment. > This is completely false. I wouldn't say it's completely false. For example, I'm guessing many enterprise software developers make more than many CS professors. Said professors are obviously qualified to make CRUD apps but they would rather do research or teach curriculums based on their interests. > The company values you more, when they make more from what you are able to contribute, on average. Yes, this is true. But your conclusion does not follow from that: > Highly paid engineering work environments are strongly correlated with interesting work and with good working conditions. There is probably some correlation between interesting work for the engineer on the one hand and profitable work for the employer on the other, but it's not nearly as strong as you make it seem.
- eertami 6y agoBut would you rather work 40 hours per week for €100k or 4 hours a week for €50k?
- imtringued 6y agoGame studios pay their developers poorly, precisely because there is a flood of people who find that type of work interesting. I'm doing a "boring" job and I get paid more than a game developer.
- 0xffff2 6y agoYou would be wrong. The number of places you can work where your code literally goes to the moon is very, very finite.
- asda_ 6y agoI would say I'm in a somewhat similar boat where I believe the work and problems I get to work on are very unexplored and super interesting but the company and industry doesn't "value" software engineers at the moment. Tbh, in a capitalist society, I cannot accept that and am looking for a change. Give me cash or give me stocks in the company, neither and you just take me for a fool. I am sincerely curious what your thoughts are on this, why would you accept a massive paycut to work on something interesting for a company that makes $$ off your work?