Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?

dan69@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• fodor@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s absurd. Many other jobs should pay that much too.Take it from the billionaires.

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  • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Exactly. Fucking mcdonald’s should be a 6 figure job.

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• FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  “six figure career” might refer to a career in which you get there eventually.

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• sobchak@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If their work brings in > 100k in revenue then they should.

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    you’re ignoring the $2,000,000 in training costs from sr devs and mistakes.

    if you want to get serious about cost effectiveness, Jr devs should pay to work at a job.

    keep in mind, you fuck up a steak at a cooking job you’re out the cost of the meal + time.

    you fuck up a DB after a schema change you’re out thousands if not millions of dollars in outages, SLAs, and sales.

    still want to use revenue as a compensation performance metric?

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    • chilicheeselies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      To be fair, if a jr dev has enough acesss to screw a prod db from a schena update, then the issue is with the seniors and managers who did not set up the appropriate guard rails to prevent that.

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      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        you understand how that proves my point, right?

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    • KumaLumaJuma@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      keep in mind, you fuck up a steak at a cooking job you’re out the cost of the meal + time.

      What? Where?

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    • sobchak@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Idk, I’ve worked with recent grads where their work likely did bring in > $100k in a year. Maybe only took a month to get up to speed. Commits from all devs should be reviewed, and all code should be tested before pushing to prod, so those catastrophic costs should rarely be a problem. We had a good relationship with professors at a local university, and they’d send us their top students. The students would work with us for a while before usually getting picked up by big tech.

      Pretty sure my work right out of college brought the company around $300k the first year (wrote the firmware for an electronic control board mostly by myself, which allowed the company to secure a large contract).

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      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        you’re almost there…

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• No_Eponym@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Cool story grandpa. Or maybe you’re just underpaid? Try adjusting for inflation. $50k doesn’t cut it for starting salaries anymore, and a chocolate bar now costs more than a quarter.

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• xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  $60k a year is not enough to live comfortably in most of the cities with tech hubs. Rent alone would be 60+% of your paycheck, plus utilities and a car to get to work, you might be going hungry.

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Agreed, but bump the internship up $10-20k for my area. In CS, you should be getting median household income more-or-less for a junior/intern role, and double median income for a senior role, or at least that’s how it works out in my area.

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• dan69@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Okay I should’ve added regional based, like major cities should add above, and against inflation. Like obviously after the first year you can make more dependent on ones performance, bonus etc… I’m just saying like you enter with a lesser salary, and get more. Or you just hop around till you get a better salary with more experience

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