I keep seeing insane TC on Blind and cant comprehend how. Is it mostly stock that was locked in before the tech bubble? If so, then why dont companies adjust it? If not, then how can a human provide so much value to a company? I am a Mech E with 150k TC, but i know im smart enough to do SWE in a top school. Should I go back and do that? MechE TC will never compare to these SWE salaries if what they say is true. #tech #layoff #salary
You can’t lie on Blind. Definitely legit
It is only a lie until you start getting it
There are ML SWEs at your own company making 500k+ Swe are magician that turn 0 and 1 into money. More traditional engineering job have magnitude smaller margin because manufacturing physical products at scale is extremely expensive
If you have a degree already you don’t have to do a second. Try to focus on switching career.
How would i switch
“How can someone provide so much value to a company” I mean it’s all relative. I’m pretty sure swes are paid a much lower percentage of overall contributed earnings to a company compared to other fields. But, tech companies make so much money so it doesn’t seem that way
The actual work most SWEs do (and not Machine Leaning Scientists) is rather simple. It’s simply demand and supply driving TCs currently. However, before you take any extreme step, I would warn that the current swe work is due for an imminent disruption. LLMs have proven that they can write code and within a few years will be writing basic crud micro-services end to end. I don’t know how much swe work and positions will be modified because of this or completely lost. Watch this space closely but don’t put all your eggs in this basket.
If you can learn to leetcode, you can get a job without buying another degree. Yes, software is worth a lot to companies. SWE are worth much more than their salaries, for big tech companies anyway.
How many hours of leetcoding would get me a faang job? Assume i have the intelligence of a guy who got into an ivy league school.
This depends on you tbh. Best bet is to pick up python, learn data structures and start doing easy problems on leetcode. People are saying not to go back to school, but I’m curious with no CS background how your resume will not go directly to the bin. Best of luck.
I would say do what you enjoy. Life’s too short to chase dollars. SWE salaries are high today, but only in U.S. tech hubs. This is a recent trend (last ~10 years). Unclear they will remain high. RE how to get into the industry, bootcamp are a waste of time. I would say either take the extra classes to get a BS degree, or just try to self-teach and use your engineering degree for credibility. After a couple of years experience it won’t matter much, but there will be expectations that you understand basic comp sci principles.
Not a lot of incentives to lie, but there are some outliers here. Generally true. TC: 390K, 12 YoE, and I feel behind too. The grind never stops
Not meaning to be disrespectful just curious. There are people with your TC with 3yoe. How does that happen?
It’s all good. Stayed too long at previous company that wasn’t FAANG or high tier, so didn’t get the level that matches YoE when moved to big tech. Needed visa so considerably less flexibility
You can just do a coding boot camp.
+1 Fuck paying a university
Fuck hiring boot campers. Let them go to school and feel the pain we had to go through. Then have some shit manager.