u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
Salaries and compensation will vary wildly based on: location, experience, how people do the math for their offers (trust me... people use different math for stock, bonuses, and benefits and it can be all over the place), and of course: a splash of luck.
I've said this many times now but your salary out of a bootcamp means nothing about your career in tech. The canonical example I give is that a $100K Dropbox Ignite apprenticeship is much better than a mid level job at an agency or bank, and possibly even an entry level job at a top tier company (I would still take entry level FAANG for the highly motivated people).
Let's say you have no experience. An apprenticeship at Dropbox, or another FAANG, will teach you very strong fundamental skills for how to work day to day as an engineer. Then you can apply all your hustle to crushing it, converting full time and loving your job and feeling good about it.
Facebook has a program called Rotational Engineer for experienced engineers who don't have top tier experience to help teach them some of the gaps they have to perform well at the Facebook mid level bar. It might pay $150K instead of a $250K fully loaded mid level offer, but it's a much better pathway for setting you up for success.
Imposter syndrome isn't the answer to everything.. if you have no experience and you want to outperform college grads with 6 FAANG internships and four years of courses, it's hard... and you dont have all the skills you need to do it, no matter how much you want to gain those skills quickly.
Do you want to have zero experience, being expected to perform at mid level at a 3rd tier company that expects you to already have certain skills, surviving with hustle and long hours, only to perform averagely on performance reviews?
Formation, disclosure: co-founder, works with a lot of bootcamp alumni later on to help them fill a lot of fundamentals that were never taught or people need improvement on... and we are growing quite fast... there are clearly a lot of people down the road who find the hustle can only get so far and once you settle into the industry you'll see what I mean. Note, I'm not saying Formation is the only way to get these skills or suggesting it's for you, but just talking about the trends we are observing.