Because it doesn’t take much to be a “good enough” CRUD framework “full stack developer” or mobile developer. Companies hiring in that market don’t have the scale and you’re just another employee.
I started taking my career seriously after staying at my second job for 9 years until 2008. I got into regularly old C# enterprise dev and I saw myself hitting a ceiling at around $150K in most major American cities outside of the west coast. That ceiling remained the same from around 2016 until the present.
I am still an enterprise dev/architect. But I just happen to know AWS and fell into the one niche position at the one major tech company that paid over $200K for dev+cloud in mid 2020.
Even today, from my cursory searching, if I had to find another job, I would probably end up firmly on the mid $100s side again without “grinding leetCode” (tm r/cscareerquestions). So, I don’t know how to find a job outside of “FAANG” that would pay me what I make now.
I started taking my career seriously after staying at my second job for 9 years until 2008. I got into regularly old C# enterprise dev and I saw myself hitting a ceiling at around $150K in most major American cities outside of the west coast. That ceiling remained the same from around 2016 until the present.
I am still an enterprise dev/architect. But I just happen to know AWS and fell into the one niche position at the one major tech company that paid over $200K for dev+cloud in mid 2020.
Even today, from my cursory searching, if I had to find another job, I would probably end up firmly on the mid $100s side again without “grinding leetCode” (tm r/cscareerquestions). So, I don’t know how to find a job outside of “FAANG” that would pay me what I make now.
Not that I’m looking.