It makes the job look kinda bad, that they have to pay so much, tho. I work for Nostr for free, after all, because the topic is motivating.
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Well, yes it is still a job. But I don't think applicants will regret making that much money :)
And frankly Bitcoin core devs deserve it. They have been working for 15 years with little to no pay. It's time to cash in.
Hey, I'm happy for anyone get paid. I'm just amazed at the salaries.
You would think salaries like that would attract so much talent, that the salaries would quickly come down. Some weird demand bottleneck, I guess.
I keep hearing about crazy-high US salaries, but nobody wants to hire the dirt-cheap Europeans. It's so weird.
Seems like an arbitrage opportunity. 🤔
Its because hiring people overseas usually require larger companies to have offices locally. There are a lot of cultural differences. So unless they do it at scale, it just generates more costs.
That's true.
I work with developers from lithuania and portugal from time to time ... they say the same about german salaries as we do about those in the us …
We have Romanian colleagues who are pretty cheap, in comparison to us.
i'm currently thinking about working as a dev again .... but the last time i did that was over 10 years ago 😅
but in the last few weeks i've seen vacancys for devs under 65k salary....
i'm just glad that i have an arrangement at the moment where it's ok for me to do only part time so i can do my nostr stuff at an adequate pace
software development is a funny thing... people who write really good tools and libraries can do a lot less hours and produce a better product and sooner, but usually that sort of development isn't done for pay in the first place
it's a bit like the carpenter who sharpens and polishes his tools and spends a lot of time practising doing joins and corners and making things square and level and polishing them smooth