I would appreciate it if you could share employers in Plano, Texas or Frisco, Texas or Dallas area in general. If you can add your experience or even if it's second hand information about their salaries, work environment, open to remote or not, tech stack (Java, .NET etc) that would be great! Also would be great to know how their salaries compare to what we are seeing here on Blind where every other FANG'er makes $300k+ (rounding up or down a little) About me: Have 20 years of Java dev, tech lead and senior lead roles, moving to Plano/Frisco, Dallas area in general in few months and currently looking for jobs that offer remote or on site when we get there from NY.
For the best salaries outside of a major tech hub look for remote work for companies in NY or SF.
This would be the best, any suggestion how to go about it? I've been looking online, hackersnews posts small'ish startups and they are all hot on new sexy technologies and I'm a dinosaur! :-) Do FAANG and the like offer fully remote from the get go? How does one sell the idea though meaning why does one want/prefer remote?
Lots of big employers. However a lot of those are Legacy companies with lots of legacy tech and processes, lots of politics and not the type of benefits you expect from tech companies in the Bay Area/Seattle/NYC. I guess the best tech/big company combo may be capital one which has a large campus in Plano. You may be able to find a tech role at that campus. Austin has much better tech companies IMO.
Toyota has been paying well out there in Frisco
Thank you d@t_person! Traditional companies with IT could work out as I might be their guy..I would be the new young guy among old timers who would be impressed that I know Java while they still use FORTRAN! :-) I was thinking are there still employers out there where IT senior folks get their own office with door or it's all open office in cube farms now!
CA Technologies PwC
Thank you doom3d! Both of those consulting companies. Anything you can share if you know about them in terms of interview process etc..I would assume they don't necessarily have inhouse software dev work and they place their consultants at their clients.
No idea, sorry. Just places I looked at out of college
AWS, MS, Toyota Connected, ATT, VRZN pay relatively well based on the offers I had in the past. You can do >200k with any of these companies in the right BU's
For MS you can easily get $200k TC but to get that Base you better be a rockstar candidate for any BU. Sales obv doesn't count since OP isn't looking for sales roles
I can either in tech IC, tech lead or managerial slanting towards tech. no sales. I'm all Java, is there place for our kind at MS?
I didn’t hold an Architect job title but I think that’s where I could move. Principal engineer sounds good as well. What would be the split for hands on coding vs technical guidance for an architect and principal engineer? I would like the high level nature of Principal or Architect level positions not Leetcode deep.
Architects at the companies I mentioned will have very little hands on where as a Principal will be coding for the most part
Thanks ridgid! I thought Architect needed to get hands on for some time, maybe in the initial stages of a project. It could different at employers that you mentioned in the amount of hands on work for an architect. I’m liking the high levels “design Twitter” questions and discussions so it could be good directions to go into.
Dallas downtown has big finance companies too. CRBE, CPMG.
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Lots of big employers here. McKesson is moving to Las Colinas within 2 years from California. They're hiring like crazy. Salaries definitely do not compare to FAANG in Bay Area. Microsoft pays above average for DFW, but really just depends on what role you're looking for.
Thank you for the reply! I figure the salaries won’t be comparable to FAANG but I was hoping that they would be decent compared to what I got which is $12x per year in Boston.
Actually I’m thinking which way should I go at this time in my career? Does it make sense to go into a hybrid tech plus management type role or entirely IC? I can go either way and could chase money for now!