The programmer supply: "It’s also possible that enrollment continues to lag behind demand by a decade and that record enrollments are just keeping pace with demand from a decade ago, in which case we might expect elevated compensation to persist" https://danluu.com/bimodal-compensation/ …
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I agree! I also wonder why there is such a bizarre obsession with "salaries becoming bimodal". That has been predicted so many times but never happens -- what you do get is a power law distribution [like in sports].
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Replying to @asteroid_saku @sknthla
I'd heard the "CS salaries are bimodal" thing so often I assumed it was true now. Is it not?
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I think it's only bimodal if you throw in sysadmins & routine SQL administration, stuff that is basically a different job
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Polite disagree: there are plenty of people in e.g. middle America doing programming at the likes of insurance companies, government agencies, manufacturers, etc who in the $45k to $70k range and who are, without question, doing software engineering.
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Replying to @patio11 @stianwestlake
So this bimodal thing is a location thing?
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Partially location and partially industry, in that I would expect an HFT developer in Chicago to get compensated like an HFT developer in NYC but I would expect a web developer for a Chicago Internet marketing firm to aspire to some day get $70k.
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Replying to @patio11 @stianwestlake
This makes me wonder if "between firm differences in productivity" is as much about distribution/reach as it is about techniques
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Patrick McKenzie Retweeted Patrick McKenzie
I wrote about it here once. https://twitter.com/patio11/status/818702768537890817 … I think firm-specific productivity is part of the story, but only part of it. It is my impression that there are firms which hire from both humps; banks, entertainment companies, etc.
Patrick McKenzie added,
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Oh I misread your tweet. I'd agree with that; a good deal of the reason that someone whose job is painting pixels on a webpage gets paid 5X at Google than they would at an AdWords customer in Chicago isn't Google's technology for painting pixels being better.
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It's that functionally same pixels produced in functionally same manner by functionally fungible developers get to either get Google distribution for free or they get to pay for Google distribution. If you have the choice, definitely own a search engine for free.
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(And a phone ecosystem, and a Youtube, and the world's leading browser, and an operating system, and... you get the general idea.)
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