it's weird it looks like I make half of what I could as a senior, espcially in a 'hard' algorithm heavy domain

but I still oddly don't want to work for them, half the pay is still decently middle class and I'm very happy overall

there's also the internal argument I've had in that most of them don't really do anything interesting (usually things that were good ideas years ago)and even if they did odds that I'd be near what was are slim