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For "Top Software Engineering Skills by Salary" we find "MapReduce". I don't think I can take this article seriously.
by csmpltn 3y ago
For "Top Software Engineering Skills by Salary" we find "MapReduce". I don't think I can take this article seriously.
- ericpauley 3y agoIt’s challenging stuff! You have to remember to map and when to reduce! /s
- dilyevsky 3y agoSecret sauce is in the shuffle
- coin 3y agoI saw that too and my first thought was how old is this article?
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoThank you. I literally asked out loud "Map reduce?" However because Kafka is in the top 5 of this list, and I know Kafka well, clearly it's right ;)
- ekkeke 3y agoThey kind of go out their way to highlight that the sample size that chose that option was low. Hardly worth throwing out the article simply because there was an outlier.
- mabbo 3y agoThey do explicitly call out that this one has under 100 data points. There's a few people who are well paid and are running software on map reduce. That's all.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoI think it gets skewed by the business / data population, which is a bunch of “engineers” wrapping simple Java and Python to massage data fro multiple databases into some common form for a data lake or whatever. This sub field hires like mad and is filled with relatively niche and mid to low skilled roles - but lots and lots and lots of them, most medium to large companies hire these roles. Higher end engineering is fairly rarified and under represented. I also looked at the salaries and was baffled - I’ve not worked in companies with those sort of bands since 1995. At most FAANG and big tech orgs that are serious those averages are under entry level and have been for decades. At one bank I worked at new hires were being offered $250k out of college - 15 years ago. So these numbers represent the iceberg roles - not visible if you’re in high end jobs and companies, likely even startups, but where most engineers are actually working.
- xp84 3y agoI was also struck by the salaries. Whenever I read mass media salary survey stuff the salaries are low like that. I tend to panic for a minute like “oh no, am I way overpaid?” Everyone who works for me makes more than the average “CEO” in that chart.
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- scarface_74 3y agoThis gets back to the bubble I mentioned that most of HN is in. FAANG and BigTech hire a small percentage of the 2.5M developers in the US.
- wiseowise 3y agoWhat’s your point, though?
- scarface_74 3y agoThat most developers don’t work at a FAANG and that most developers are just doing line of business CRUD apps. In other words, your perspective is greatly skewed.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoThat that’s why “mapreduce” shows up at the top and everyone here is surprised. We aren’t representative of our own industry.
- TheRoque 3y agoThey also talk about "AngularJS" which is the name of the legacy Angular. They also put AR/VR/Metaverse/Web3 in the same basket (section best "fields")... what the heck
- kodah 3y agoThe article also mentions where you may want to move and lists Portland. I live out here; there are next to no tech companies here. You'll need to get a remote job if you want to make that kind of money.
- readthenotes1 3y agoNot to mention focusing on salary by City instead of purchasing power is somewhat disingenuous
- danwee 3y agoSame. In 4th position "Chef". Then in the "Highest Paying Jobs in Tech" chart we have the following entries "Back-end software engineer", "Full-stack developer" and "Software developer". I mean, who wrote that article? Can't take it seriously at all.
- ericmcer 3y agoNo this is good info, Learn AWS Route 53 if you want to command a high salary. Maybe this was written by an AI? I feel like an editor with some tech knowledge would have laughed at those categories.