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> 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
by 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 :)