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Re:If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard t... by ItTabs on Monday August 30, 2021 @10:01AM (#28355734)
everyone wants to underpay the talent and there's only limited amount of talent

the price floor for really talented engineers is also high so high in the sense most startups can't afford those 300-400k salaries.

Re:If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard t... by cj on Monday August 30, 2021 @10:04AM (#28355762)
Outside of FAANG, who is paying $300k+ for a standard / non-management dev job?
Re:If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard t... by Beaver117 on Monday August 30, 2021 @10:09AM (#28355802)
Any big trendy startup that everyone knows the name of
Re:If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard t... by thebean11 on Monday August 30, 2021 @12:10PM (#28357160)
Do you consider Senior SWE and above IC roles "standard"? If so lots of companies. Think Salesforce, Adobe, etc.
Re:If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard t... by nthj on Monday August 30, 2021 @10:11AM (#28355821)
Re:If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard t... by ghaff on Monday August 30, 2021 @10:17AM (#28355894)
So a handful of well-known Silicon Valley-ish companies and then you have Comcast, which is probably as good an example as any of a well-known technology-oriented but fairly mainstream company outside of Silicon Valley, and they're paying a senior engineer about $150K.
Re:If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard t... by myvoiceismypass on Monday August 30, 2021 @12:46PM (#28357679)
Yes, but Comcast is in Philly and has a much lower CoL than CA & NY
Re:If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard t... by dabfiend19 on Monday August 30, 2021 @10:10AM (#28355805)
pretty much any public company with salary plus rsus
Re:If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard t... by nickjj on Monday August 30, 2021 @02:20PM (#28359055)
The comment I'm relying to is pretty grayed out at the time of me making this comment but is this really that off?

I know a number of folks who work either as developers or on an IT team for a publicly traded company. 300k+ is a stretch but a lot of them pull an extra 30-80k / year more than working at a non-publicly traded company simply because of the stock options they get every year as part of their compensation.

Having publicly traded stock is nice because once you've gotten past the vesting period you can hang onto them for >= 1 year and sell them on demand for 15% long term capital gains tax instead of the usual 35%+ you would have to pay on income tax. Getting an extra 25k to 68k extra post-tax income every year on top of an average dev salary is a big deal.