TP4Cornholio

Family is east

The west coast sounds like a paradise for developers. Makes me wish I had moved...

Human life and children in particular are also much more valuable than data.

I work at Aberdeen, MD making 141k. I got an offer once for 155k from a nearby military base not long ago. I've seen houses nearby for 180k. Pretty easy to save here if you're ok with Gov beurocrac. Easy to get a new job, too.

SharePoint. Mostly because we use it improperly (as a backend for web apps)

In my experience, the best ways to maximize your income as a software engineer are to job hop, study data structures/algorithms, and learn how to market yourself. Companies rarely reward engineers who stay put.

My experience with bootcamp graduates has been that they struggle with any non rudimentary problems and lack knowledge of any of the fundamentals required to do non CRUD applications.

Not to mention the internet and gps, both which have roots in the DOD.

Perhaps I should have a talk with my lead and ask suggest he take a more authoritative approach?

Most startups can’t afford to train anyone.

The “talent shortage” is a myth.

Hard to believe it costs so much if they're getting that much free labor. I would think they'd at least break even.

What is your niche?

- A lot of big companies have satellite offices around Austin, like Apple, Intel, IBM, etc. You aren't necessarily locked into working for an "Austin company", if you don't want to.

Sounds good to me! I just want to avoid anything government-contractor related after my experience in the DC metro.

Their attorneys probably cost at least 1000 an hour. Would be cheaper to release the data than to fight this.

What do you mean by the best town?

Well, it you view this page's source. You'll see tags that haven't been used since the 90s like <center>. Maybe the jobs are to maintain legacy systems and alot of engineers don't want to maintain legacy systems. Still, seems like having Y Combinator on your resume would look great.

People like to knock on government funded research on security/defense here, but it is actually one of the reasons the US leads in tech. DARPA produced the arpanet, the predecessor to the internet. Also, while everyone is aware of Stanford and silicon manufacturers contributions to making Silicon Valley, the defense industry also played a big part in SV's early days. And let's not forget Alan Turing was working for the British government to defeat the nazis. Funding research is a great idea.

Yeah that's a good idea. Treating it like a regular contract and expecting contract pay rates.

I thought they were supposed to pay fairly well.

I agree with the not having it be the first step.

I think take home tests are the best way to go.

Alot of the Florida east coast has "sandbars" to the east of it. It's basically like a long vertical island. You have to be very wealthy to purchase a home here. These are the people who are the most threatened by hurricane and the like. Miami's sandbar consists exclusively of wealthy people.

IBM WebSphere. It is truly awful.

I can't believe it's so low. I hope Canadians aren't asked to put in overtime at those wages.

Getting a node server running the first time is actually very difficult. The libraries constantly change so fast tutorials frequently don't work. It was easy once I understood everything, but it wasn't easy the first time at all.

Having multiple companies work on similar things is true of every industry. There isn't a soda glut because both pepsi, coke, and many others make soda which is very similar.

It sounds like you're saying meritocracies won't hire minority candidates because they won't measure up. This is blatantly false. A few of the brightest guys I know are minorities and they were hired because they were smart as hell.

I might be wrong, but it sounds like the difference is they can pay them intern salaries and call it "training."

It sounds like an internship, (low paid trial worker), except for a longer term.