Ask HN: What Is Happening to the Market?

Posted by jokestir on Thursday December 09, 2021 @10:53AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am a dev with 6+ years of experience.

What is happening to the dev market? I can't help but notice a trend.

On twitter, I see 17 year old devs pulling in 120k+ annual income [1].

At 17, I had not even started my college yet.

Is this the new normal?

It all seems to be a bit surreal seeing teenagers make so much money in high school while they struggle to even make a proper git commit.

[1] https://twitter.com/PrasoonPratham/status/1468899558289592322

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Re:Ask HN: What Is Happening to the Market? by zaphar on Thursday December 09, 2021 @02:14PM (#29501616)

Software dev salaries are going up quite a bit. And when I was 17 I probably had enough experience doing software dev to justify getting hired. It's even easier today to get relevant experience at that age. I don't really see it as all that surprising.

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Re:Ask HN: What Is Happening to the Market? by yuppie_scum on Thursday December 09, 2021 @11:58AM (#29499839)

If Twitter was reflective of broader reality, Bernie would have been president 3 times already

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Re:Ask HN: What Is Happening to the Market? by tboyd47 on Thursday December 09, 2021 @11:20AM (#29499225)

What's wrong with that? Salary is all relative to cost of living. And Git is typically not taught in schools.

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Re:Ask HN: What Is Happening to the Market? by jokestir on Thursday December 09, 2021 @11:28AM (#29499384)

Seems like I am out of touch with reality then.

If 17 year olds with no experience get that much, then I dunno about experienced devs.

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Re:Ask HN: What Is Happening to the Market? by tboyd47 on Thursday December 09, 2021 @11:39AM (#29499532)

Experienced devs can make much more than that. Does that surprise you?

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Re:Ask HN: What Is Happening to the Market? by uberman on Thursday December 09, 2021 @11:00AM (#29498930)

Alas, it is not just teens who sometimes struggle to even make a proper git commit.

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