Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming

Re:Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming by nosefrog on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @11:16AM (#44735342)

My first programming job in SF paid $60k/year 10 years ago. I'd like to thank big tech for driving salaries up.

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Re:Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming by chubot on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @11:23AM (#44735452)

Yeah I mean I have to thank Facebook, because I was at Google in 2011.

Anyone remember when Google raised the entire company's salary, maybe 30K or 60K people at that point, something like 20-25% all at once? Eric Schmidt and Laszlo Block got on stage and told the whole company how great we are, so they want to keep us

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

We learned later that was because Facebook didn't participate in the Steve Jobs-initiated cartel of Google-Apple-Pixar-Adobe-Intuit-LucasFilm-eBay

Eric and Laszlo of course made no mention of the collusion that turned out be illegal

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Re:Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming by dehrmann on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @12:09PM (#44736054)

In 2015? That seems low for an entry-level job at a startup, then. $60k is more like 2010.

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Re:Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming by nosefrog on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @02:56PM (#44738166)

It was low. I got a bump to 90k that year, then 130k when I jumped companies, which I thought was a mind boggling amount. Do entry level devs even get out of bed for $130k these days?

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Re:Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming by nsxwolf on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @11:52AM (#44735811)

Are you sure your experience didn’t drive your salary up?

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