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That's not the impression I've developed, having been a software engineer for about 15 years. I think I spent about $100k total, and got a bachelor's and a mast
by sgtnoodle 3y ago
That's not the impression I've developed, having been a software engineer for about 15 years. I think I spent about $100k total, and got a bachelor's and a master's degree without any subsidies. 400K in student loans for a computer science engineering degree seems pretty steep. That would have to be out-of-state tuition at a pretty nice school. (I suppose we've been in a decade of low interest rates, so perhaps folk have been more willing to borrow a lot more?) I've worked at a BigCorp, and never had lines of code as a performance metric. Lately at my current job, I practically write no lines of code per day, and instead spend most of my time designing solutions to problems and mentoring others.
- pixl97 3y ago>400K in student loans for a computer science engineering degree seems pretty steep I did a little adjustment to the numbers in the sense I put them closer to the numbers actual doctors pay for their schooling, not exactly programmer pay. On average doctors pay and programmers pay is very similar. Doctors schooling and programmers schooling is nothing alike at all. Moreso, it's far easier to get blacklisted as a doctor then a programmer for any number of reasons (programmer ethics, lol funny). Where you have more risks, more regulations, and more costs the more likely the default behavior becomes to toe the line.
- sgtnoodle 3y agoOh, ok yeah 400k of debt seems relatively modest for a medical degree. I didn't pick up on your intent to make it a metaphor.