PSA: if you're in tech, know that comp is up A LOT (10% - 50%) over last year. This is most pronounced at FAANG and for Senior-plus level engineering roles, but is true to a lesser extent nearly everywhere I've looked. If you're looking, or thinking about a raise: ask for more.
If you'd like a gut check on your salary, or an offer you're looking at, or on what you might ask for: please reach out. I'm happy to share what I'm seeing, and any thoughts specific to you and your role.
To give one specific example: I know of a few people — staff-plus engineers; director-plus managers — making over $1M in total comp. These are outliers, but before 2021 I'd only heard of those much at those levels once or twice; now I know of at least a half-dozen.
Oh and if you're a consultant? Now's a great time to raise your rates. Companies are struggling to hire (same root cause as those high salaries), and all the consultants/contractors I know are slammed. You could possibly double your rates and still be fully booked.
I should probably also add: comp isn't everything, especially when we're talking about some of these watering numbers. I've regularly chosen less comp for a better job, and been really happy. But for those who want/need to optimize for compensation: there's an opportunity.
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So much this. A physical breach is a nightmare scenario for infosec.
On the off-chance that any of my followers are involved in this -- I do have some experience in scenarios like this and would be happy to help. If I can be of assistance hit me up.
Just to give folks who aren't in the field an idea what we're talking about:
- we must assume that foreign agents were among the rioters
- snooping devices can be implanted into anything with a power cord
- so every device in the capitol is now a potential foreign asset
So, just for starters:
- all computers need to be inventoried, inspected inside and out, and the OS paved/rebuilt
- keyboards, mice, &c might now have implants, they probably should be tossed (see eg keelog.com/forensic-keylo… which looks like a usb cable but is in fact a logger)
I'm not ashamed to admit that sometimes I miss PHP.
Over 20 years later, and still nobody's even come _close_ to PHP's ease of deployment.
This tweet brought to you by the 3 programming languages and 5 Docker images I need just to run one app.
Turns out having what I thought was a mild opinion about web app deployment was an invitation for people to yell at me, assume I'm stupid, or sell me thier Next Great Thing.
Ugh.
The thing that boggles my mind is how people just assume no nuance whatsoever. Most replies seem to think that I don't get that there are good reasons things got more complex, or that I don't know there are downsides to yolo editing in production, or etc.