Listen take this advice from a long term old school tech worker... Life will get better the light will shine again there is life after Twitter... This is some of your first times in this situation. I was there in the dot com bo-m. Some of you was not even born yet. The object of this game is not being the biggest fish in the pond. But being the oldest fish in this ocean. Remember the globe.com remember prodigy and pets.com? People from these places even moved on. Soon you guy will sit back and laugh at the past as you glow and see a great new tomorrow. Some times even I pull out pictures when I was 20 year old dot.com me thinking the world was ours in plastic clothes in the goth bar drunk laughing living and indulging in this wonderful thing called life... You will find a way it will hurt but it will make you a better tech worker some of you it will light a fire inside that will make the next innovation.
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Shush with the "FPGAs, SOCs, and DSP" stuff already. The less competition for driver level development the better off I am salary wise... Nobody really want to do this anymore right?? I mean, it's just not cool, programming at layer 1 is so boring... 8^)
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You really sound clueless. Twitter has many highly skilled data scientists that build incredible models and machine learning engineers that knows how to productionalize that. These highly desirable skillsets that employers want. Compensation is commensurate with demand and market wages. $270K a year is not just for a "social media website" that requires a little CSS/HTML and maybe some Javascript/Typescript.
I find it laughable that you are throwing out hardware terms like FPGAs, SOCs, and DSP.
Honestly, there is a lot of crying... wah, wah. People ( ex-Twitters) don't really want to admit that the gig is up. Ask anyknone in medicine what it's like to work from home. There is no "work from home" while I get my housework done and get in a hike/walk/job/quick class at the gym. I seeing one patient after the next, after the next - face to face. So while I don't think anyone should have to work more than 40 hours/week, I would say you've all been lucky. Welcome to the life of so many working people that truly put in the hours. Oh, and they get nowhere near $270K a year. Oh, any they are in charge of your family's medicines, how they breathe, how they walk, if they can get out of bed, if they'll make it back home after they fall, and help you decide if they go into long term care. Just sayin'
As a tech worker and knowing typical tech salaries, I don't believe anyone who is incredulous that Twitter employees making 250k is in tech. So just they are just trolling.
Is there any reason Twitter would need to pay it's employees $270K for a social media website? Overpaid employees if you ask me for doing some coding for a website. It's one thing if there were programming DSP, hardware, FPGAs, making a real physical product or System-on-Chips (SOC) semiconductor chips, but for a social media website. That's just ridiculous. Spoiled if I must say so.
Twitter employees should be find for a few years if they made around $250K. I'm assuming they have plenty of savings that now pays around 4-5% interest in a bank account which they can pay their bills with.
I make about $270K a year at Twitter. Thankfully I was not impacted. Because if I was, I would not get another job at that salary level. There are many younger folks at Twitter that were impacted this Friday, and they made around that amount, give or take. They will find another job. They most likely will not command that level of pay. Life will be different.