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I don't think engineering environments can be reduced to salary. Working culture is personally far more important to me. I don't want to work through ticket aft
by raxxorrax 5y ago
I don't think engineering environments can be reduced to salary. Working culture is personally far more important to me. I don't want to work through ticket after ticket with respective optimized performance metrics. That can net a lot of cash but is a boring but still stressful job where your colleagues become your competitors like in a badly managed sales department per stereotype.
On the other hand the work in some supposedly benefit rich countries can be bad as well. You can grind your head against walls too big to tackle. People in general aren't very interested in technology or efficient solutions. The word software induces a panic where people just throw money at the first one to never utter the word again.
But more so than country, the respective company is probably more important. Smaller companies also have interesting problems and the work there is preferable with far more freedom. They pay is worse than their larger competitors though.
- EduardoBautista 5y agoIn my experience, the lower the job pays the higher the stress.
- boring_twenties 5y agoWell the lower the job pays, the more likely you're stuck in it. High-paying jobs pay enough to walk out anytime you feel like it. That removes a ton of potential stress right there.
- raxxorrax 5y agoIt is true that those jobs tend to get more stressful. It was meant in a context of engineering salaries, where the lower ones still provide a fairly luxurious way of living. What many industries do to low wage workers is nothing else than abhorrent and the tech industry supports this with surveillance technology. The security department is especially guilty here.
- waterlaw 5y agoBeing able to leave a job at any time (due to savings) is a huge comfort. This is anecdote, but the higher salary companies I've worked at have been much more competent, productive and happier in general. Most of the stress I've encountered in software development has been due to complexity brought by inexperience. They were all lower paying companies.