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Yes you are correct, I generally agree with some of the points made, where I disagree is that we would want help modernizing. Unless the modern solution provide
by Dingo24 4y ago
Yes you are correct, I generally agree with some of the points made, where I disagree is that we would want help modernizing. Unless the modern solution provides some kind of cost reduction or feature improvement that I can sell to my boss (which is rare), then it simply isn't going to happen unless you are a designer or working completely on the front end.
To be honest, that may be a good place to look for ex tech workers at my company, but I wouldn't know since I'm way deep in the backend.
I don't think that Twitter employees are necessarily lazy or like to "rest and vest". I just think the kind of work they are expecting and culture difference is often an insurmountable obstacle.
As for what others have asked, we generally max out on salary at around $200k for very senior contributor roles. For a fresh college grad then we are more than competitive for the area at around $70k-$80k. Like I said, we aren't a SV company, and we will not match a SV salary. But we are very competitive for the area, and its not an undesirable area either. If you do a COL adjustment it probably roughly evens out.
- pevey 4y agoJust to be clear, I'm not trying to insult anyone at a boring business. I work in insurance, one of the most boring of the boring businesses. I happen to like it. And I don't mind saying that the industry needs to and wants to modernize. We are short on the talent to get it done, although that is slowly changing.
- Dingo24 4y agoI think we understand eachother then. If there are insurance companies out there that need people to help implement self service, then I think that's an improvement that absolutely needs to be made. Of course, given that its insurance you will never be able to get rid of the mainframe in all likelihood, but that is also an area that could seriously be improved by anybody willing to try and dig them out of the hole they most likely outsourced themselves into (which is something I have seen a lot of at smaller banks, and I kind of suspect is what you were referring to when referencing borderline scam artist third parties). I totally misunderstood where you were coming from in your original post, and for that I apologize.