I just watched a video of an American software developer talking about his career including salary and application process.
Holy shit I'm glad that I don't live in this shithole. What a terrible experience.
You basically have to be nothing but a workslave for 65k a year and this will already be considered a good job. 8 days of vacation a year. Getting fired on the spot. Repeatedly. 2080 hours of work a year. Insane coding interviews.
Now I really appreciate not living there.
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>8 days of vacation a year.
that cant be true
Here's the link
youtu.be
His other job had 50k and 10 days
Well I just earn 45k as a developer
>8 days of vacation a year
Jesus fucking Christ, I'd kill myself. People need time off or they lose their minds. Especially in such a hellishly high-strung environment as the american workplace.
But you probably can't be fired on the spot and need to take insane coding interviews and have a GitHub repository just to get an entry level job with 10 days of vacation a year and your contract explicitly stating 2080 hours of work a year and being at risk of being fired 4 months into the job because someone allocated budget to another project and your position just vanishes
>Insane coding interviews
Examples?
Apparently they have often have multiple stages and you are supposed to use specific frameworks and libraries on the spot instead of pseudocode
you described the life of the average indian
This thread needs more traction
>specific frameworks and libraries
Why? Are they so greedy they can't take a few day to train their new code monkeys?
>8 days of vacation a year.
Maybe when you get to upper management. It's 0 before then.
Yes, they're that greedy. Off the shelf workers, no need to train, instant profit per ass on seat (or standing working station).
They want ready-to-replace cogs in the software production machinery with easily quantifiable skill sets.
You get trained in company rules they won't teach you how to code the uni should have done that. Matter of fact they expect you to have done way more stuff outside the uni course and basically be ready to start your own company. Then you can have the entry level position.
Even birds live in constant fear. Suffering is the only constant of our universe the fact that a sentient being will live in misery is as fundamental as the laws of thermodynamics.
Here's my experience from my latest interview. I got the job.
>First phone screen - object oriented design and some data structure and algorithm Q&A (1 hour long)
>Second phone screen - system design questions (1 hour long)
Sequence of four on-site interviews
>Interview with a software engineer asking me to solve an algorithm whiteboard exercise
>Second interview with head of engineering asking me a system design question
>Third interview with CTO asking me to solve a logical puzzle
>Fourth interview with some other guy asking me behaviorial questions
They actually didn't care that much about languages and frameworks, at least in these interviews. They told me to write in any language I'm conformable with or pseudocode so I could get through the problems quickly.
The starting salary is $80k (in Los Angeles). The job has an unlimited vacation policy (but the office manager told me that they just ask me not to take more than six weeks vacation in one go).
How is unlimited vacation supposed to work?
There's no limit to vacation days but you can't be unreasonable. You still have to worry about appearing to be a productive worker.
Not insane coding interviews, but there were some ofc. IT wages are shit here overall unless you're CEO or something you won't be earning 6 figures
However I do like my job I can make my own hours as long as the deadline is met.
It's a trick companies use. If they gave you a mandated number of days employees would be expected to take them. Saying they are unlimited puts the onus on the employees to meter them out, and usually end up taking way less than the 25 or so we'd get.
People with 0h contracts who work through agencies don't get holiday leaves. American tier work culture is arriving here too. And unions only care about full time workers. Rental workers can fuck off t. unions
>don't get holiday leaves
Or other benefits
What's unreasonable about expecting a Github repo? You should have something to show on your repo after four years of studying computer science in school and making projects on your own, right?
>and making projects on your own
??? if I'd be making projects on my own I would be self-employed instead of handing a corporate overlord a share of the value I produce
Why aren't you building your own projects and pulling in the big bucks then?
because I'm too uncreative for it and also because I care more for my personal development than the lastest javascript framework