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vargalas

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Passionate web developer. Dreaming in bytes since the age of 8. Started programming on a wooden Hungarian personal computer 30 years ago.

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LOL. Exclusively frontend or backend developers are extremely limited.

I never understood why would somebody limit him/herself unless it's for market positioning.

If you love one of them, go for the love. Otherwise, the money you make is yours... If one pays 50% more, it gives you so much freedom. You _never_ can exactly know if you'll love a company or not before actually working there.

I agree. Post Soviet countries had really good education. My Hungarian Bsc level maths/cs degree was way more difficult than my UK masters or my second masters in Belgium. You needed to learn and you had to think, not only buff back the knowledge. Also the competition was quite high. Still, the universities of my masters' are in the top 200 and the Hungarian university is not in the top 500. Well, that's life. But I still was not able to get a visa (to be ontopic).

I'm a senior web/fullstack developer, interviewing with some firms in order to move to the Valley. I have a good chance with a company in SF, soon I'll have to negotiate the salary with them. Is $120.000/year really hardly enough to live on there? I'm in Europe now so I really don't know the costs there. Here I make ~7000-9000 Eurs / month, which is quite enough.