Dead as in not much projected growth. Not dead as in there's no point. You can do that if you please.The oil extraction and exploration, aka the Petroleum Engineering sector is near dead, not the refining and processing of it. Everything needs to be processed breh, that's where Chemical Engineers come in. If that was the case, then diesel, propane, gasoline, jet fuel, asphalt, etc wouldn't exist. Unless you're fine with everyone using raw unprocessed crude oil instead
This Is How Much Engineers Make at Airbnb, Uber, and Snapchat
This Is How Much Engineers Make at Airbnb, Uber and Snapchat
The best compensated programmers work at Airbnb where, on average, they earn $312,000 annually in salary, equity and various bonuses, according to data from Paysa.
By Salvador Rodriguez
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Software engineers across the nation make $104,000 a year on average, but for those working at the top tech companies in the world, that's just the start. New data released Tuesday shows that the average coder working for the likes of Apple, Amazon, Uber and others easily make more than $200,000 when salary, equity and bonuses are all added up.
At the top of the charts is Airbnb, which pays its average engineer a total compensation of $312,000 per year, according to a report by The Information. The figures in the report come from Paysa, a startup that collects compensation data. At Airbnb, more than half of a coder's pay comes in his or her equity in the company.
Paysa's data shows that it's still a good time to be a software engineer working in Silicon Valley. The data published reflects that of typical software engineers and excludes the salaries of senior engineers and product managers.
Airbnb is the only firm that appears to be paying programmers more than $300,000 a year on average, but there are many others who exceed the $200,000 mark. They include Uber ($292,000), Twitter ($290,000), Facebook ($285,000), Snapchat ($252,000), Google ($233,000), Microsoft ($222,000), Apple ($208,000) and Amazon ($203,000).
A separate report released in late August by Hired shows that geographically the San Francisco Bay Area remains the region with the top salaries for software engineers. There, the average salary for an engineer is $136,000. That is followed by Seattle at $128,000 and Los Angeles, where coders get paid $124,000 annually on average.
The reason for these extravagant salaries is easy to explain: while the tech industry continues booming, the demand for engineers grows but the supply for this talent has not kept up. Across the United States, there are more than 223,000 vacant software developer jobs, according to data released earlier this year by ACT | The App Association. More than 91 percent of these jobs are located outside of Silicon Valley.
But while software engineers are getting well compensated, they are not the highest paid jobs in tech. On average, coders earn $123,000 a year, according to Hired. That trails the salaries of product managers and data scientists, who make $133,000 and $127,000, respectively. Behind software developers are designers, who make $115,000 on average.
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Listen to what you said though cuz this is exactly what I'm talking about. San Fran is THE tech hub of the world. Of course you can find a job there. You have coding bootcamps that have connections with software comapnies, so their clients are basically guaranteed at least a junior position if they complete the camp. But $58/hour there is $15/hour everywhere else if not less, as San Fran is the most expensive place in the US to live at and I guarantee that coding bootcamp was 30k if not more. I'm not being a crab but its not realistic at all to think anyone is gonna make that much money in such a little time period for, without that guap to make it happen. I've been doing this for a year and a half and I still have problems finding work because of those reasons.
What I'm saying is getting a grasp of 2-3 languages over the course of a few months (simple stuff like HTML, CSS and Python), getting "junior developer" internships, getting a years experience at a minimum, and being able to go out and apply for lower-level development jobs. I know a few guys who have done just that. I'm not saying you'll jump into a 100k job right after that, but you could easily start at 60k with experience like that and willingness to learn + dedication.
I'm doing nikka math. The average rent in San Fran for a studio apt is $4k. I live in a place where 1k/month will get you a penthouse suite with high class bytches to do your laundry
Help me breh cuz I'm salty. I know java, javascript, html, css, do mobile and web and have been an internship for a year and I still can't find shyt. I'm learning graphic design because I feel like I don't know enough.
You're lucky as well. Houston is a huge tech hub, after some coding experience you could eat.I've been putting hours into this Python on my own. A boot camp would be perfect, but don't have the ability to dedicate 40+ hours to it
Austin Coding Academy is starting up in Houston though and it's only a couple days a week.
Start my masters next year in Statistics and hopefully after I'm done with that will be eating GOOD off of a Data Science roll. Halliburton paying nikkas 150K annually before bonuses for that title here in Houston.
150K in Houston
It honestly shouldn't be too difficult, you have a solid resume and an easily editable cover letter, right?
Dead as in not much projected growth. Not dead as in there's no point. You can do that if you please.
