I'm a full stack developer with nearly 2 years of experience with no degree beyond an associates. I currently lead a very small team, and work in a small startup in the midwest. I see Blind TC's and balk at my paltry 50k/yr without benefits. I understand I lack a lot of experience, but even I know how underpaid I may be.
How can a self taught developer level up his skillsets and move to better paying positions? How does one in a much smaller city and non-tech hub network effectively to navigate to higher TC?
I understand enough I think to realize how astronomically little I may actually know in this field. Funnily enough, I've been, for better or (more probably worse), forced to be in a senior level of position in a small team since the start of my tech career, so I heavily lack mentorship or a large team of other developers to work with, so I often am forced to "make things" and "make things work", and I'm often successful with this, but I heavily struggle to know if what I do is "right", if this makes sense.
Clean Code
The Pragmatic Programmer
Algorithm Design Manual
Designing Data Intensive Applications
Cracking the Coding Interview
MIT's OpenCourseWare 6.006 Introduction to Algorithms
MIT's OpenCourseWare 6.851Advanced Data Structures
The above is my list that I've been going through along with leetcode, but I think I still struggle with easy's on leetcode, so I clearly have major work to do there.
If not, what else am I missing? What other resources would be recommended for someone like me? I'm not necessarily looking for 250k+ TC or anything...but 100k+ in the midwest would be a pretty substantial QOL shift for me.
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