Agree Those who say no are in ignorance Good time to switch careers Svb collapse is the last nail in the coffin
No software engineering will change. AI/ML is gunna change every industry and engineers who evolve will rise
Nope, not going to happen.
Agree to disagree. I’ve worked with emerging technology my entire career, it’s pretty obvious where the industry is going
Salaries are directly related to how hard it is to get other people to do the same job. At most they stay the same but not decrease
If you were in it just for the salary that was a bad idea from the start. Do what you love, become the best at it and money will come.
Lol 90% people are there for money . Doing what you love doesn’t pay bills
That people are in our industry for money has been a problem since the 90s. We’re surrounded by people that are mediocre because they’re chasing money. It was just a normal middle class job for STEM nerds until then and incomes still haven’t kept up with inflation. The reason it looks like big money is that nearly everyone else’s incomes have stagnated even more than ours.
Nonsense, AI will be the last meaningful job there is. Everything else will be entertainment, which pays based on other factors than productivity.
I was having the exact same distopian thoughts some time ago including the entertainment bit. Stop reading my mind
The runaway TCs of 2021 and 2022 are not sustainable. I am talking FAANG equivalent external TCs (SDE1 200k, SDE2 350k, SDE3 500k). Tech companies are quickly realizing that revenue per employee is not increasing and many investors have raised questions on whether Tech companies even have projects with sufficient revenue projections to justify these heavy long term investments (ex: metaverse). To make it worse for existing engineers like you and me, the entry bar into Tech is getting lower and lower. I have seen videos on TikTok/Instagram where people claim to have reached 300k TC after jumping careers into Tech with just a couple of months of bootcamp and Leetcode. Yes, couple of months from backgrounds like arts, dancing, traveling etc. No other industry has such a low entry bar (Law, Medicine, Pilots etc) and with more and more non-tech people joining in, I don’t see how TCs are going to increase in the future for quite some time.
What you dont see on tiktok is big portion of people who enter big tech by a couple of months of interview training only are either really solid engineer/scientist in another field, or have close relationship with the report chain, or low chance to survive next performance review. Companies are not charity organizations.
Yes we need certification exams to protect us like the other industries
It’ll fall for average skilled people. Highly skilled people will always be in demand and highly paid…unless you’re at Adobe or a lower tier
So I guess you wont be in demand either then
🤣🤣🤣 I jumped ship for a 2x raise and I’m at a place where sit with the C-suite. But please, carry on…I want to hear more.
please quantify "a lot"
I saw a company had massive layoffs and then still meet all of their timelines. What happened nexts is the few engineers that stayed got paid wayyy more money but they are almost not hiring
What do you think people should switch careers to? Doctor? Lawyer? Some people are here because they enjoy the work and have experienced being underpaid before going to FAANG. Even without FAANG money, it’s a good job compared to most work. What exactly do you think is the pivot? Unless you think people will start making $40k a year, there is no pivot. Not to mention I think it’s completely wrong that salary will fall a lot. It’s possible there won’t be the insane entry level salaries anymore (I never had that sadly based on when and where my career started), but the ceiling has always been high as you work your way through your career, FAANG or not.
Plumbers make 100k+
Person to tell you which berries are safe to eat?
What do you get paid at adobe?
I guess bucket full of nonsense 😂
My guess is a lot of salt…OP is salty because people are more skilled than them