In the US though, compensation for software developers is very bi-modal. You have the “enterprise shops” that start off around $80K and max out in the mid $100s and the “tech companies” that start out in the mid $100s and end up in the $350K+ range.
Most of the 2.7 million developers in the US are on the “enterprise dev” side. If you have a choice, you want to be on the “tech company” side if you care about your compensation.
For context: because of path dependencies and bad career choices, I spent most of my career from 1996 - 2020 on the “enterprise dev” side and only got into $BigTech by pivoting to cloud consulting (enterprise dev + cloud + a shit ton of yaml/HCL PowerPoint slides and diagrams)
Before anyone “well actually”’s me with numbers they are directionally correct on the enterprise dev side in most major cities.
My opinion is that there is something else wrong if your editor takes minutes to open.
I know very few people that routinely have major issues with VS. It's not perfect, but it's a really good IDE to use and to be really productive given the appropriate workload.
Mine takes about a minute to open. It is good once open until I try to debug an asp.net application - then it slows down. Its even worse if one of Microsofts default app monitoring/reporting library kicks in during debugging - lots of realtime graphing et al that I never asked for.
I hope VS 2022 works out but I am concerned about load.
Yeah, from the comments on the blog: "The German market would be Germany, Switzerland and Austria. That's over a hundred million people. Works for me "
