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by morgante 9y ago
It doesn't have to be 10x. I think 2-3x differences are far more common but even they aren't typically compensated at that multiple in the market.
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by morgante 9y ago
It consistently astounds me how many companies would rather hire 2-3 average developers (for average or below-average salaries) rather than one great developer for 1.5x the price. Here in New York, this is especially acute. Many finance com
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by morgante 9y ago
You probably shouldn't compromise much on salary, since plenty of startups are happy to pay market salaries. The trade-off for startups vs. big companies is really in whether you're getting liquid RSUs (with clear cash value) or p
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by morgante 9y ago
I assure you it's entirely true. I'm actually in the middle of interviewing myself and a few factors stand out for how I have quite a few offers: 1. Not applying online. I haven't submitted a single online application. It&#x2
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by morgante 9y ago
Why do you assume only new grads set up multiple interviews? In my opinion, it's never a good idea to accept a new job without interviewing at least a few other places to establish your market rate.
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by morgante 9y ago
> If you have one with chip+PIN, as all in Europe, 100% of liability is with the customer. Thankfully I don't have chip and pin, yet another reason I actually vastly prefer the American system to European. You seem to just be provid
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by morgante 9y ago
People regularly assert that credit cards are factored into the cost of goods, but I posit that's mostly untrue. The cost of most things, especially "luxury" goods like restaurants, is set by the price the market will bear—no
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by morgante 9y ago
> With a credit card, you pay with a simple number that anyone can just steal, and if you don't take care, you're fucked. You seem to deeply understand credit cards. There is practically no risk to using them. As a consumer, yo
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by morgante 9y ago
> There may be some interest in relocating specific highly desirable individuals, but they will already be industry insiders. That is not in any way my experience. For most companies willing to do relocation (including almost any good te
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by morgante 9y ago
> You know when US people use their credit card? Every day. You know when Europeans use their credit card? When abroad. To me, that's just evidence of how backwards many Europeans are in their approach to credit cards. You seem to h
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by morgante 9y ago
I don't know anyone working in tech who worries about affording food. At most tech workers worry about affording a big enough apartment/house.
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by morgante 9y ago
> High income earners like software engineers tend to be able to save a very significant percentage of their income Exactly, especially when you're young. It's very possible to save 50+% of your income as a software engineer in
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by morgante 9y ago
I wish I enjoyed remote work more, since I've managed to get contracts like that but really missed the feeling of working with a team in an office.
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by morgante 9y ago
It's extremely hard to come up with any across the board cost of living comparison. For example, you mentioned a red light ticket. That presupposes you drive a car, which is pretty much required in NC but far from a necessity in the SF
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by morgante 9y ago
People aren't fully strategic 100% of the time. When clouded by emotion, suboptimal decisions can look strategic. (Ex. establishing/asserting their authority.)
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by morgante 9y ago
As a person who's lived in both, this definitely makes literally no sense. The startup ecosystem in NYC is leagues above Dubai (which is honestly 90% joke, useless startups). NYC is by any reasonable metric (funding, unicorns, exits, e
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by morgante 9y ago
Not all engineers are driven by "fun." Some certainly are, but I know many who prefer to work on projects with tangible business value.
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by morgante 9y ago
You don't have to preach that to me (I agree), but it does mean that you shouldn't really consider universal healthcare to be an additional benefit when comparing UK & US developers. The US developer also has healthcare not fa
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by morgante 9y ago
These are actually way nicer than I expected. I've seen much more distracting open office layouts.
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by morgante 9y ago
> If you are actually in the UK, you have some amazing benefits that US-based folks don't get in the form of healthcare. So? That's pretty irrelevant since any good developer job in the US comes with excellent health coverage.
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by morgante 9y ago
Some companies have a hard limit on developer salaries. Many will never pay a developer over $200k, even if the developer is that good. This can come from two reasons: 1. The company doesn't have sufficiently valuable projects to cap
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by morgante 9y ago
If a project is "important" then it should have business value. For some developers (including me), working on projects with significant business value is the definition of glamorous. Since there's significant business value,
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by morgante 9y ago
Sure, I agree that if your goal is to get married and settle down quickly then NYC might not be ideal. That certainly doesn't mean everyone finds the NYC dating scene bad. Plenty of people are at a stage in life where their preference
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by morgante 9y ago
> listen to what people in NYC say about the dating scene there I live in NYC and think the dating scene here is fantastic, at least for someone in their 20s. There's lots of opportunity to meet interesting people and have fun toget
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by morgante 9y ago
If I spend more than a week without getting meaningful work done, I get extremely depressed. I love the thrill of building projects and creating business value. You'd actually have to pay me more to do nothing than to do something.
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by morgante 9y ago
I don't think 6 months is a typical developer job search, and that has nothing to do with being picky. Almost everyone worth working for is hiring constantly. Hence it's relatively straightforward to run a bunch of interview proce
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by morgante 9y ago
That happened to someone in my family. You can be sure they'll never do it again.
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by morgante 9y ago
Good advice. I think it's a great idea for sites to encourage adoption of password managers.
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by morgante 9y ago
Users shouldn't be memorizing passwords in the first place.
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by morgante 9y ago
In the past, I've done dual-track interviewing where candidates could choose either a (paid!) evaluation project or a traditional technical interview. Even then, the vast majority of applicants could not perform at a suitable level. Ha

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