Re:I’d Pay You $500k a Year, but You Can’t Do the Work
by Arcten on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @12:03PM
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A Github account for someone earning $500k is probably completely empty, or barely touched. When you're getting paid that much to program, typically your attention is less focused on your side projects.
Re:I’d Pay You $500k a Year, but You Can’t Do the Work
by phamilton on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @11:57AM
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I think the $500k example is misleading. At that level of seniority, your open source work isn't your primary qualification.
What the author is pointing to is the $250k dev who just 2 years back was struggling to land a $90k job.
Re:I’d Pay You $500k a Year, but You Can’t Do the Work
by iaw on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @12:05PM
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Two years out of college programmers are making that much in total comp at Facebook and Google. If there's no equity component, $500K is actually in the ballpark.
Re:I’d Pay You $500k a Year, but You Can’t Do the Work
by kzisme on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @12:42PM
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Do you have any data or source of this?
Re:I’d Pay You $500k a Year, but You Can’t Do the Work
by iaw on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @01:27PM
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There are a couple documents floating around detailing software engineer pay at Facebook and Google. If you do the math on their equity grants, with the past stock growth, you can reach the same figure.
Re:I’d Pay You $500k a Year, but You Can’t Do the Work
by douche on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @11:57AM
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I would guess that the people making that kind of bank tend to not have GitHub accounts, or at best their fool-around-on-the-weekend projects on it.
That's a fuckton of money. I don't know how you make that unless you're in finance, self-employed as a high-end consultant, a CTO/senior architect, or a founder.
Does anyone have some example github accounts for a talented web developer? Interested to see what a github account for someone who earns $500k looks like.