A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn

Re:A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn by jordanb on Saturday January 10, 2015 @11:33AM (#8867052)

I interviewed at Matasano a few years back. I figured doing pen testing might be a good way to climb the value chain beyond my maxed-out career in webdev.

We didn't get to salary negotiations but if I had seen the starting salaries posted above I would have coughed up my spleen. My assumption was that a junior security researcher is a senior developer and therefore the salary would have been at least (senior dev salary + σ).

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Re:A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn by tptacek on Saturday January 10, 2015 @11:37AM (#8867061)

Again: I'm only vouching for the ladder, not the numbers. We (a) didn't lose a lot of people to salary negotiation (I think, in the last 2 years I was there, we lost 2) and (b) as a rule didn't want people to take pay cuts.

Matasano didn't have an "associate" rung on its ladder. We talked for 10 years about having a "junior consultant" role, but never did. So you can discard those numbers entirely.

I could obviously be much more specific about how the numbers in the rest of the ladder don't square with that comment, but I'm not going to.

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