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Re:Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level by perl4ever on Monday January 06, 2020 @12:49AM (#21966822)
NY state pays all IT people (with a 4-year degree) $56K to start currently. Of course, you get a pension(!) and good health insurance. Private sector companies often don't pay much higher, and have much worse benefits.
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Re:Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level by lotsofpulp on Monday January 06, 2020 @05:01AM (#21967964)
IT is not comparable to SWE.
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Re:Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level by walshemj on Monday January 06, 2020 @09:15AM (#21969232)
That's situational in the UK IT is short hand for working in tech
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Re:Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level by perl4ever on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @08:28PM (#21997633)
Software engineering isn't IT, and it isn't engineering, according to the know-it-alls (ok, probably different people), so what does that leave?

Fact remains, some organizations classify everyone as an IT specialist that does anything with a computer.

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Re:Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level by perl4ever on Monday January 06, 2020 @08:17AM (#21968864)
All of the latter are a subset of the former in this context.

And of course, many people go from, say, QA, help desk, 3rd tier support, or programmer/analyst to developer.

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