Ask HN: Remote salary headroom? (non US based) Hey folks, Curious to see what folks are earning if they are working remotely and not located in the US or Canada. Totally fine if you're working for a company located in either of those countries though as long as you don't reside there. I'm asking because as an engineer in the EU I've been consistently hitting a limit of around $200k whilst working for US companies and haven't managed to break through that yet. |
Seems to be bimodal. Good senior devs get 180-200k and then FAANG get 300k+.
I don't see a national median from the BLS for seniors, but I see other numbers saying $115k-130k median for seniors (glassdoor, indeed, payscale, etc). This is consistent with what I see. Most of the senior dev positions in my area (Philly region) are between $100k and $150k, with $100k-120k being the most common. I even see some senior level jobs with a lower end of the range around $85k (my company has that as a senior dev minimum, with a max of $150k). I see a few for $200k-ish, but for principle/director/etc level dev. These are very uncommon in my area.
No equity.
Seeing as salaries are constantly rising due to WFH being so common, and with anecdotal data from this thread, I'm feeling I might be underpaid (closing in on 10 years of experience on top of CS diploma and an MSc).
So my side question is, how do you target high paying positions without having to go through a LC type interview in a FAANG company? Recruiters who reach out to me on Linkedin avoid the salary question usually.
learning styles:
- text
- videos
- tutor
- with random person from the web (eg pramp)
- with a buddy
(And all include practicing problems)
Pick the learning style you like most. It isn’t so bad.
My problem is I find these interviews dehumanizing, and they reflect on how the work is afterwards. I like my work, and I like working with people who like their work and are there because they're good at doing what the work is, not because they could do what most second year undergrads could easily do. I've been historically targeting positions related to certain field, and I'd want to be hired because of what knowledge and experience I've built up.
Still, my feeling is worsened by how long these interview processes take (multiple sessions of the same thing basically), and how you can fail arbitrarily because of slight mistakes. Which means, even if you know you'll pass 80% (quite good) of your LC medium focused interviews, if you take 5 of them in a row, you have a 32% of not failing one. It's a numbers game, obviously, but that doesn't mean the human playing it doesn't experience feelings of stress and frustration.
It is what it is. There’s a time to change the world, and a time to just put in the work.
Software interviews are a pretty low on the list of impactful things to take personally.
30 years ago to reach the equivalent level of compensation required being born into a family that got you into the right prep school, taught you to aim for Law or Medicine, carefully controlling your grades for 18 years, getting through 4+3 years for law and getting into a top 10 school to be able to get into a white shoe firm, or 4+4+5 years for Medicine.
Now, for us nerds who like computering, quite literally a few months of leetcode can catapult you into $500,000 per year at a top 5 in the world company.
Those who want it enough find a way to get it done.