Re:CDPR pays its junior developers $700/month
by joombaga on Sunday January 17, 2021 @02:46PM
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I'd like to live in a world where a noob developer can advance their skills by familiarizing themselves with a company's codebase, and get paid a living wage to do so. The call center operator deserves the same.
Re:CDPR pays its junior developers $700/month
by rubyn00bie on Sunday January 17, 2021 @04:43PM
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This is ideally how QA should be run at most organizations. Help familiarize juniors with tooling like git, the command line, deploying things, writing tickets, communicating with the team-- have them see different parts of the engineering organization and then let them choose where they think they have the most interest.
I know because I've done this with wild success and everywhere that doesn't do this has had by comparison awful QA.
Take this in context. $400 for a starting tester (aka zero qualifications) is standard for eastern europe. As a career, it's on par with call center operator.
2-3 years later, he switched to "junior developer" in the same company. I'm reading this to mean there was a conversation with the management that went like this: "You seem like a smart guy and you did a couple of javascript online classes. We'll switch you to dev and teach you how to program properly - oh, and you get 10% raise along with it. When you can do useful work we can renegotiate".
One may teach himself useful programming in a couple of years while working full time as a tester - it's definitely possible. But the baseline probability is that at that stage he wasn't yet productive, and still required what's basically paid training for 3 to 6 months.