Comment by bluGill
5 days ago
If you could earn $250k why would you settle for $160? There are reasons people do but still money is a powful signal
5 days ago
If you could earn $250k why would you settle for $160? There are reasons people do but still money is a powful signal
A kernel engineering job is much more fun than yet another backend web gig. A large part because when working with typical web coding people do not want you to do actual software engineering.
But the actual issue is that if you underpay people they will not feel respected and valued so they will either not be motivated or leave. So you cannot pay below market, but you do not need to pay FB salaries either.
Theoretically (never happened to me), I'd definitely do a $100K Windows kernel, or whatever kernel work, over a $150K DE job that I currently have (I used to have a $220K DE job too and I won't hesitate to switch).