Subtle_Omega

u/Subtle_Omega






r/csMajors•

This is a hypothetical situation for those who are really passionate in CS vs those who are in it for the money. Let's say you got offered these two jobs. A fast food/retail service job that pays 100k, or a CS job (in office) that pays 60k. Which one do you take?

And let's say for career growth, even if you move up to a managerial role, CS caps out at 100k but the fast food/retail will cap out at 300k, similar to how tech jobs are priced now.

View Poll

66

100k usd for a new grad in US basically means that those college students are getting paid more than CIO/CTOs in any other country in the world. I mean even in the other western countries (Canada, Aus, UK) , the C suites barely make 100k-200k usd a year. That's not even to mention the fact that Asian/EU don't even reach that. Meanwhile, US salaries you can regularly see people saying 100-300k TC, not even including stocks/bonuses. I'm not American so maybe I just don't understand the fact that these US SWEs bring...

148