Very exciting project. It started as a dream journal app many years ago when I was a student, and will now soon have a full interactive step-by-step guide with practical tools to achieve your first lucid dream.
It's android only, but I've started working on an iOS version and am thinking of raising some money or doing some crowdfunding to accelerate the development.
As you may have heard, Google My Maps [0] has recently shut down their Android mobile app. A subset of the functionality has been integrated into the Google Maps app, but it isn't possible anymore to edit points and lines on mobile.I used Google My Maps as a way to create and share geological points (POI, markers, pins) on my travel blog: - When traveling, I could create points, even while...
Obviously, this career switch would be a great opportunity for me to move into the back-end world, learn a lot of new stuff, broaden my SE skills, build a better CV and invest in my future.
There are many arguments that I can find on my side to find it disgraceful and why they shouldn't decrease my salary. I feel I shouldn't even have to defend my salary in the first place in this situation, as decreasing my salary is a bit of a low blow.
Some notes: - The startup has a lot of cash - We are ~20 software engineers - I am quite confident that I could earn more than my current salary with my experience if I moved to a bigger city in my country - The other juniors didn't have more professional experience when they were hired, and don't have a better education - I absolutely love the the project, and the other employees, our culture, and the office - Even if I do accept now, I don't know why they'd want to do this to me when they know I am not happy with the situation, as their are making me lose some of my loyalty to the company, taking the risk that I'll leave when I get enough experience on back-end
I feel like they are forcing the pay cut on me, after promising me a switch, then promising there wouldn't be any salary change.
HN, shed light on my situation and tell me what you think.
Long story; I want to know if a salary cut is justified in my situation.18 months ago, I started my first job as an android developer in a fintech startup, after graduating with my Masters in a top 20 university. When I joined, I was the only android developer and built 2 relatively complex apps from scratch (designing architecture, app development, some security/crypto/api). My CTO, to whom...