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Yeah but do salaries represent that? The biggest mistake I've made in the past 10 years of my life is choosing to focus on low level instead of just chasing the
by nickysielicki 5y ago
Yeah but do salaries represent that? The biggest mistake I've made in the past 10 years of my life is choosing to focus on low level instead of just chasing the latest and greatest react/rails stuff. Fresh grads with experience only in Java at $FANCY_CO outearn me by a factor of 2.5 because they get on the web/app track.
Meanwhile over in embedded I'm writing highly performant const-correct modern asio C++ applications requiring custom kernel drivers.
Parent comment had the nerve to imply that I'm not even a true programmer. None of this shit makes any sense anymore, I can't wait for the bubble to pop.
- Apocryphon 5y agoThere are hot companies in need of embedded programmers. Plenty of auto companies, both self-driving and not, it's a big space. Ditto for IoT, which has gone from an enthusiast's hobby to a mainstream category over the past five years. Representing these spaces, Rivian and Samsara both went public in the past two months, respectively. Nearly every FAANG makes consumer electronics, and at least a couple are into cars.
- throwawaygh 5y ago> Parent comment had the nerve to imply that I'm not even a true programmer. That wasn't my intention. > Fresh grads with experience only in Java at $FANCY_CO outearn me by a factor of 2.5 because they get on the web/app track. 1. In fact, my example of "less complex job" was "web dev". 2. Most fresh grads doing web dev make $55K or so. The $FANCY_CO engineers are an outlier. And, FWIW, within those companies, the low-level C++ people tend to make a lot more than the fresh grad web dev people.
- Beefin 5y agopoint is, what does it matter how complex the programmatic effort is, cognitively? judge the ability to be high during the tasks by its' earning potential :)