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IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.
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When I was doing interviews at Sonic Healthcare the lead engineer and hiring manager said they hired 5 of them. The team I interviewed for at Adobe had them too. I think it's way more common than you think. The bootcamps developed by Google and Microsoft and what have you seem to be quite good.
All of them were UI guys though. Which makes sense to me. UI isn't necessarily hard to learn and the UI framework flavor of the year changes a lot.
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I wouldn't be surprised if they're unicorns. I had a friend who was on the university's programming team, and my school has consistently won Nationals beating MiT&co and gone to internationals. Of course he sent to Google. You get on the programming team and it guarantees you a job wherever the fuck you want.
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Could be skewed by location too. For instance bay area pays substantially more. Also..
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Boston is high COL but I've found they don't really pay at a level to meet that COL unless you work at google, amazon, VMWare, Oracle, etc. Akamai paid me like $85k and that's sort of laughable in that city.
My internship at EMC paid $24/hr and I felt like a million bucks at the time.
My internship at EMC paid $24/hr and I felt like a million bucks at the time.
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The starting salaries for the high COL areas make sense I do give it that. My friend is getting out of the Navy and got a job in San Jose making $130k. Which sounds pretty rough to me since a shitbox apartment is running you $2500. Since he has a wife and kid who probably don't want a shitbox it's going to be more like $4k a month. Plus CA taxes and shit... I love CA but would hate living there. Fuck.
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Noodleface
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I think I made $75k at my first job out of school and that was more than anyone in my class (except the one guy that worked at the same place as me). A couple people now make significantly more than me but work in the city. That dude that worked with me is now at Google, but he has a condo in Cambridge so he's technically probably poorer than me.
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I was already 5 years into my career by the time I finished my BS. It's probably help a little bit, but I honestly think I could've gotten by without it. I've pretty much only worked for gov/gov contractors though so I guess it's a little different than corporate. Clearance + experience will pretty much guarantee I'll never be unemployed. I think I'm pretty much topped off in the low 100s for salary though. Some days I think about going for the money and jumping into some high tech as a federal pre-sales engineer or something like that, but I honestly can't see myself enjoying it long term.
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I think my ceiling is pretty high. This job I'm getting is only a Senior engineer role.. still several big bumps coming
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Noodleface
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I'm going to be honest, I don't know. In school I imagined making this much money at the end of my career.
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85k in Boston? Wtf? My buddy is 5-6 years out of college in Boston making 120k doing embedded.