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Re:5 years of leetcode with no progress. I'm giving up by devmunchies on Monday March 15, 2021 @01:19PM (#26468740)
yeah surely. just having good knowledge of django/rails + react can get you a $80k-$140k salary.

or if you're good with people a solutions engineer is a good options, because you are mostly the "nerd in the room" during the sales process: leveraging technical acumen to demo, build hacky prototypes, and solve the potential customer's problems.

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Re:5 years of leetcode with no progress. I'm giving up by QuitProgramming on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @08:54PM (#26498653)
Do you have specific examples of jobs like that that pay on the latter end of that spectrum?

Solutions engineer also sounds interesting. Thank you for mentioning it.

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Re:5 years of leetcode with no progress. I'm giving up by devmunchies on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @09:36PM (#26498901)
most tech companies with at least $500 million market cap will pay that (california, seattle, or NY) if you have at least 2-3 years experience.

here's a unicorn list (all private companies with at least $1 bil market cap) https://www.cbinsights.com/research-unicorn-companies

Pick one and look at engineering roles. For example, I would assume this role at Brex (no affiliation, chose from list) pays at least 180-200k. https://www.brex.com/careers/engineering/4946341002/

of course, public tech companies (e.g. FAANG, Twilio, etc) will also pay that.

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