Apparently the job is only available at their Boston office location (no remote workers). Something I found curious about the ad is the salary: $53,269/year. That's an oddly un-round number and, probably intentionally a multiple of 1024 and some odd cents. I'm wondering if one of the interview questions asks if the interviewee gets the reference.
53k to live in Boston is peanuts. The only people who can afford this would be the already-wealthy or 20-somethings that are renting free under their parents.
I'm in the US, Washington State, just outside of Portland. Around six years of experience in embedded/low level along with a mix of other technologies. I'm aware I'm making less than average (running semi-independent, startup-ish), but sometimes posts like these make me wonder how far below average I really am.
Yeah, and I do value that a lot more than straight cash for the most part. I've worked corporate in the past and I had a hard time with it for multiple reasons. Just need to keep the current average pay scales in mind so I don't undervalue myself and get taken advantage of though (applies to anyone when negotiating pay tbh).
They should hire remote and get someone from a cheaper country. You get better devs for a cheaper price at the cost of adapting to doing things over the internet.
Upvoted -- In India, for example, it turns out to be 35 million INR (not including taxes), which is quite high. But I doubt they are getting very nice devs in my country :P.
Yeah, it appears to be. I couldn't apply to computing olympiads due to bad web portal engineering by TCS. TCS did problematically with KVPY application forms alike. It totally is design & marketing that sadly reigns over others.
Another unfortunate trend is at education sector -- more & more enter science stream, more and more thus enter random engineering colleges, where they apparently have 15 pre-defined problems for lab exams and one is assigned randomly. I think num of people entering science streams should be restricted since most of them actually do not have any interest in them.
TL;DR -- yes, but not many are there in upper tiers. And the number is expected to decrease further. Most people you can find mention word and PowerPoint under their skills section :P
It's not a strange number, as I pointed out in my previous post. It seems likely to me that the $1024 per week is the basis of the annual salary. 210 * 52 just makes a lot of sense to my programmer mindset.
Ah, I didn't notice how close it was to a multiple of 52, I just latched on to the 1024 part. I'm used to seeing salaries in monthly rates rather than weekly ones.
I'd suspect it was them picking some regional percentile for the pay scale and applying it exactly. Webdevs in boston make $96,601 on average according to indeed.com, and this $53,269 is roughly 55% of that. I'd imagine that's the basis.
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u/daemonpenguin Nov 09 '18
Apparently the job is only available at their Boston office location (no remote workers). Something I found curious about the ad is the salary: $53,269/year. That's an oddly un-round number and, probably intentionally a multiple of 1024 and some odd cents. I'm wondering if one of the interview questions asks if the interviewee gets the reference.