From a Lorry Driver to Ruby on Rails Developer at 38

Re:From a Lorry Driver to Ruby on Rails Developer at 38 by fooker on Sunday April 21, 2024 @07:49PM (#40110237)

The etc in your first sentence is doing a bit of heavy lifting here. There are so many companies in that category now that if you have any specialized software skill (compilers, ML, database engines, OS, systems in general) you can absolutely make that much if you wanted to. If you don't believe me, and have such skills, spend 20-30 days interviewing!

Sure if you are a typical full stack developer you are not going to make that much money unless you get into Google or something.

Also, base salaries are typically not that high, but the total compensation with equity can reach that pretty easily.

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Re:From a Lorry Driver to Ruby on Rails Developer at 38 by ok_dad on Sunday April 21, 2024 @09:37PM (#40110787)

I guess in the energy tech industry no one pays that because I’ve been looking, and I have pretty specialized skills.

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Re:From a Lorry Driver to Ruby on Rails Developer at 38 by fooker on Sunday April 21, 2024 @09:41PM (#40110801)

Makes sense, it's interesting to see this discrepancy between fields.

Could you elaborate what specialized skills though?

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Re:From a Lorry Driver to Ruby on Rails Developer at 38 by ok_dad on Sunday April 21, 2024 @09:44PM (#40110810)

I write software systems to control devices in buildings in the context of energy savings, like hvac and charging cars, and also control attached distributed energy resources, like batteries or solar.

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Re:From a Lorry Driver to Ruby on Rails Developer at 38 by fooker on Sunday April 21, 2024 @09:54PM (#40110849)

A friend started working in this space last year. It seems like the usual story here is smaller companies giving you lottery tickets in the form of pre-IPO options. And large established companies paying a bit below market rates.

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Re:From a Lorry Driver to Ruby on Rails Developer at 38 by varjag on Monday April 22, 2024 @05:17AM (#40112640)

See when people say "tech" colloquially it means website and app developers, not us embedded dev hobos.

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Re:From a Lorry Driver to Ruby on Rails Developer at 38 by sangnoir on Monday April 22, 2024 @03:50PM (#40118690)

Eh, embedded and sensor-fusion devs are making bank working at Waymo, or VR at Apple or Meta. It's less about the field itself and more about big-tech salary-leveling (and insane profits)

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