Re:Ask HN: Are there “regular” SWE jobs that pay $200k+?
by closeparen on Monday March 07, 2022 @01:50AM
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You should absolutely try to work for a monopoly if at all possible. Monopolies have the luxury of indulging smart people with big-budget pie-in-the-sky R&D projects and little to no short-term profitability or productivity discipline, which are just about the best possible working conditions for engineers. Also where you are most likely to make real progress on a serious problem that contributes to society, instead of being micromanaged hour by hour to make sure you stay on task in grinding out a sales-driven feature backlog for some enterprise bloatware no one needed.
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Re:Ask HN: Are there “regular” SWE jobs that pay $200k+?
by avmich on Monday March 07, 2022 @02:00AM
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> You should absolutely try to work for a monopoly if at all possible.
I did, and I agree that there are possibilities. They aren't nearly always available - R&D departments in Microsoft or Google are very different than their cash cow departments. I wonder if the former justify the latter. It's not enough, say, to be a PhD to get into those departments, so only minority of engineers can indulge themselves working there.