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Pay better. It's totally possible that you are paying appropriately, but I've been disappointed with my most recent job search and am likely winding up doing ba
by vitno 4y ago
Pay better. It's totally possible that you are paying appropriately, but I've been disappointed with my most recent job search and am likely winding up doing backend work again simply because those roles pay almost double.
- stackbutterflow 4y agoThey can't. Margins are thinner. Hardware companies have extra costs that software companies don't have. I almost tripled my salary by moving from what the person your replied to is looking for to the web. AND it's easier. AND I can work remotely. I don't blame them. But they'll be more and more desperate to attract people. The democratization of remote web jobs after COVID is another nail in the coffin. They pay less, 99% of the time you have to be in office. It's a losing battle.
- vitno 4y agoThis frequently isn't true, although I'll admit it's industry dependent. This is the rhetoric used to depress the wages. Sure, they have extra costs but when you do the math, frequently the wages are still just a drop in the bucket of the operational expenditures.
- Ancalagon 4y agoAgreed, its the same tactic used in healthcare.
- Workaccount2 4y agoI think the real issue is that software is way overpriced.
- ZephyrBlu 4y agoSoftware is underpriced for the value it generates.
- Workaccount2 4y agoSo is everything else, you just take it for granted at this point.
- naasking 4y ago> It's totally possible that you are paying appropriately Doubtful. If anyone is having a hell of a time finding electrical engineers or embedded developers, then by definition that means the field isn't lucrative enough for people to stay in it. That's exactly the case I've seen repeated in every post in this thread.