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I’m not a recruiter but figured I’d comment to help you relax a bit if I’m understanding your question correctly. HN is very in touch with a segment of the tec
by comfypotato 4y ago
I’m not a recruiter but figured I’d comment to help you relax a bit if I’m understanding your question correctly.
HN is very in touch with a segment of the tech sector that has seen a huge downturn. If you’re asking about positions where you’ll be making 300k in 5 years as a software engineer, I would say you’ve come to the right place and you’re probably right that those positions are even harder to come by than they were before the downturn. (I don’t really know, though. I’m just a code monkey at a normal company.)
Regarding putting food on the table and living an extremely comfortable life as a software engineer, don’t worry lol. I’d imagine the average hired competent programmer is starting at the same thing as they were before the downturn (that is to say Amazon, Meta, Twitter, etc. haven’t had a statistically significant effect on the job market). Anecdotally, my fintech company is ramping up hiring tech right now. Take a deep breath and relax, you’re in a very safe industry. (Unless you’ll only be satisfied by 300k and up, in which case I have no idea what’s going on and can’t really relate anyway.) Most if not every company has software to build; you might not be the core value generation, but the pay is still way above what new hires are making outside of software.
- przeor 4y agoWhere?
- chrismeller 4y agoThe dozens of places on Indeed or LinkedIn that I still get emailed about multiple times a day because I’m too lazy to log in and unsubscribe from the alerts?
- etempleton 4y agoLook at education, non-profits and government.
- etempleton 4y agoThis person is correct. Outside the tech sector there are companies still hiring at a rapid rate. Is the tech sector an early indicator of the overall economy? I don’t know. it could be. But if you need a job look at other sector. Lower paying sector like education, government, and non profits are pretty desperate for people still and these are often great places to work with good benefits even if the pay is not so great.
- spangry 4y agoTo echo this: in Australia, people with even mediocre tech or data skills can walk into a federal government job as they're desperate for IT and data expertise. You'll get a combined yearly salary and retirement benefits of "only" about $150k AUD (~$100k USD) for a mid-level role. Certainly not big tech money but the hours are good and job security is rock solid. Tech people have it so good - I certainly regret my career choices.
- yawnxyz 4y agooh wait, so that's why there are so few tech founders in Sydney? Really hard to find any engineers hungry to start their own thing
- philwelch 4y agoNevermind, I’m stupid.