IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

Khane_sl said:

He's only got ~3 years experience if I remember right. He's making good money for being out of college for only 3 years.

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Not for Kendall Square / Silicon Valley.
I've seen College grads hired with salaries higher then his.

That said. He does beat the majority of people I know's salary at his experience level. (My personal Salary didn't accelerate until around 5 years. Just realized I'm about to hit 10 years of experience. Old now :| )

Ya hear that Noodle? How's it feel to be a pathetic scumbag loser?

It depends what companies you're talking about. Google and Facebook are both on a different level.

When I started at Emc I started at the max you could make for a software engineer I (76k),this was mostly because I was an intern before and proved myself. Typically they higher mid 60s.

I never got promoted which is why I left and basically why my pay was stunted there.

Going here, I went up about 15% or more in total salary.

Should I be getting paid more? That depends. They wanted someone with 1 year UEFI experience. Now, if you read about all the bullshit I tell you about do you think a typical 1 year or fresh grad could handle this? Probably not. Maybe an MIT good ol boy (trust me, it is a boys club here)

They got what they paid for, but they completely sold me on a job that i don't think someone with less than 5 years experience just in UEFI BIOS is equipped to handle.

Im trying not to complain, but I can't help it. No one here even understands what i do or how impossible it is. Paddling up shits Creek without a paddle sounds about right.

And with the "quality" of work that I and others are putting out,this place feels like a joke to me.

Vinen knows where I work but I won't be foolish enough to post the name now with all my shit flinging

Khane_sl said:

Ya hear that Noodle? How's it feel to be a pathetic scumbag loser?

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I pretty much feel like one everyday at work. Between the 10 major tasks they want done before I even started I'm barely making a dent.

Noodlemod_sl said:

Conversation was like this:

Company A is going to handle the changes, you direct them

2 weeks later

Company A didn't make the change the way we wanted it, looks like it's back to the old way

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Sounds like a good day to ask for a raise, more perks, more vacation or whatever floats your boat.

Water is free Borzak.

I have unlimited time off. That is the only "perk'

If you believe that's a perk I've got some land to sell you

Sounds like your stock just went up. Ask for what you want.

The hardware engineering team (my team) is 7 people deep.

Data Visualization of Hacker News Salary Spreadsheet - Medium

I saw this on reddit today. Kind of interesting. It shows Boston kind of in the middle of salary. I was shocked to see Columbus on the list -- unsurprisingly on the lower end.

Actually if you look even lower you'll see Cambridge (where I work)

Yeah I wasn't 100% sure if that was Cambridge MA or Cambridge UK. Which is why I didn't comment on it. I assume MA but it never disambiguates it.

Yeah that's true, I don't think they'd break Cambridge out of Boston but you never know.

Euro seems low. Unless it's just a reflection of the socialist economy.

moontayle_sl said:

Euro seems low. Unless it's just a reflection of the socialist economy.

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True which I think also indicates the Cambridge they're talking about is MA. Since London is below 60 and Cambridge is above 80.

To answer your original question I think we're around ~6000 employees. My team is very small but basically creates all the servers for the entire company. My role is deserving of an actual team.

Why is NYC on there three times?