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Then again, just being able to glue libraries together ought to be enough to justify a 6 fig salary, because inflation adjusted that's potentially less than the
by 082349872349872 2y ago
Then again, just being able to glue libraries together ought to be enough to justify a 6 fig salary, because inflation adjusted that's potentially less than the 5 fig salaries I was offered last century, fresh out of school and still wet behind the ears.
- alephnerd 2y agoAnd the only reason (I assume) you're still in the tech industry despite the dot com bust and the Great Recession is because you can at least show value to employers, and you most likely have some communication and critical thinking skills, not just gluing stuff together. Plenty of code monkey types flamed out or remained underemployed. > the 5 fig salaries I was offered last century, fresh out of school and still wet behind the ears And there were also fewer developers in the 1990s/2000s than in the 2020s, and the hiring market was not yet fully globalized and async compared to the post-COVID WFH/Remote market.
- formerly_proven 2y agoMost companies don't offer WFH/remote though.
- alephnerd 2y agoWFH/remote during the pandemic normalized the opening of foreign offices, because it successfully proved the operations can continue in an async model.
- kragen 2y agoby any measure you contributed a lot more value than that, though