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I'm sorry for the rude remark, but claiming software engineers and other IT professionals are working at the legal minimum wage came across as if you were mocki
by apexalpha 2y ago
I'm sorry for the rude remark, but claiming software engineers and other IT professionals are working at the legal minimum wage came across as if you were mocking us.
My apologies.
And yes, perhaps the Dutch market is not representatie for all of the EU. But then again Silicon Valley isn't representative of all of the US but these salaries are usually posted for benchmark.
- menaerus 2y agoStill your argument doesn't apply since I wasn't comparing salaries of experienced professionals but out of the University starting salaries. Considering the whole European market as a whole I think I was even optimistic with 30k figure since there are many professionals with years of experience still not managing to earn much more than that. And I'm talking about building smart stuff, algorithmic design. 100k USD figure OTOH was pessimistic and it didn't include SV starting salaries which would obviously be much larger than that.
- apexalpha 2y agoAh, okay. Well my starting salary was €50k in 2016 so it's probably €60k or €70k now. If we're considering entire continents I'd like to point out that the median salary in Mexico is €30k. :)
- menaerus 2y agoI'm talking about the EU countries and not the third-world countries but since you're ignorant and disingenuous there's no purpose of continuing this discussion anymore. More graceful interpretation would be that you're limited in capabilities to understand distributions, percentiles and some fresher year statistics, in which case it should be easy to fix.