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Brazilian here: for laid off in November by an UK based startup and still unemployed. Local companies seemly are willing to hire but because the flood of fired
by speeder 4y ago
Brazilian here: for laid off in November by an UK based startup and still unemployed.
Local companies seemly are willing to hire but because the flood of fired workers they are offering really bad wages. I got offered work as embedded C dev for 300 USD month... I didn't accept back then because I was still working in my old job. I regret not taking that job now. 300 USD at least is more than 0 USD.
- allanrbo 4y ago300 per month, 300*12=3600 per year, seems a lot lower than median for Brazil: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/brazil https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/brazil . Guess there must be a huge span between companies then.
- defrost 4y agoI'm thinking that was meant to be $3,000 USD per month ~ $36K annum in Brazil (which is circa Brazil median dev salary).
- speeder 4y agoNo. I mean 300 USD per month. If I was offered 3000 USD per month I would jump with joy and be extremely thankful. My last job I was earning something like that and people here started to treat me as if I was extremely wealthy.
- defrost 4y agoDamn. I'm in Australia and don't expect big ticket US paychecks myself, but that does seem low for embedded C dev work - there's some skill required there. I guess it's all relative to whatever economy you're embedded in though. Good luck and best wishes going forward.
- pcthrowaway 4y agoLevels doesn't seem to track salaries for your average "mediocre" (see, work-life-balance prioritized) developer quite as well. In Canada their end of year report listed some cities with median salaries of 100-130K USD, but I think most Canadian devs aren't on levels, and earning a bit less. For example, the Canadian government pretty much pays software engineers between 40K-80K USD (even for 20 YoE). They're surely a massive employer, but they're not listed on Levels Not that working for big tech or U.S. companies is that much more desireable, but it does pay a lot more, and those people are more likely to be reporting on Levels
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y agoInteresting. 80K USD is really low in Vancouver, Canada, based on the people I talked to (limited set and all that). I thought salaries are way higher by now, even for work-life-balanced people
- eddsh1994 4y agoWhat would be a good rate for you atm?
- speeder 4y ago2000 USD per month would allow me pay my existing bills. I wouldn't save any money, but I would be able to pay my rent and buy some crappy food.