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I agree a lot of people got pulled over into the right hand side during the weird boom and now things are adjusting. But neither side is more "sustainable" tha
by lokar 3y ago
I agree a lot of people got pulled over into the right hand side during the weird boom and now things are adjusting. But neither side is more "sustainable" than the other (just some individuals expectations). The work is different, the skills are different, the expectations are different. FAANG are not wrong to pay what they pay.
- lolinder 3y agoThis whole thread serves as evidence that the upper modality wasn't sustainable at the levels it was operating at, while the lower modality is still going relatively strong. That strongly suggests that one is more sustainable than the other. FAANG employees like to tell themselves that their salaries are/were well deserved and not merely the result of a bubble, but a lot of them are finding out the hard way that that isn't the case.
- lokar 3y agoThere were a lot of these jobs even pre covid. Google had like 40k engineers.
- scarface_74 3y agoAnd there are 2.7 million software engineers in the US.
- lolinder 3y agoI never said anything about COVID—the software bubble I'm talking about started in the early 2010s.