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Comment Google? (Score 1) 479

Or NASA?
Or any place that writes database software (i.e. Oracle, pick any NoSQL company)?
Or any place that needs people who can do weather modelling?
Or any place that needs people who can do HPC (i.e. computational science; a little redundant from the question above)?
Or any place that needs software "architects", not developers?

With a Phd (not to be confused with Phb as they only get master's degrees) there's no need to slug it out in the trenches with us mere mortals who often find Knuth difficult to follow.

Comment Re:How much money are we talking about? (Score 1) 387

Let me put it this way. With such languages you can break in to the 36% Obama 2013 MFJ proposed tax bracket and you don't even have to be living in the greater Seattle, Washington area.

I think once you're at a certain level, you must be multi-disciplinarian in languages, libraries, and frameworks. You're also primarily getting paid well because you're a good software engineer and even better at solving the business's problems elegantly and with the least amount of effort.

Working in a smaller pool can be good because scarcity drives demand. If you're in the larger talent pool you have a lot more competition which actually drives down wages, especially when you're getting edged out by dirt cheap H-1Bs.

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