u/throoowthrowthrow wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
When you say "related degree + experience" as someone that might get accepted, do you mean non-software experience? So say an electrical engineering degree and has electrical engineering experience but hasn't done a bootcamp, some amount of self teaching.
u/michaelnovati replied ·
Right no professional coding experience. Some examples: civil engineer who does some data processing; finance/math background that has done some Matlab; electrical engineer that has done verilog. All of these we consider 0 YOE.
Your expectations should be an entry level SWE job, even if you are mid-level already in a different profession. Which is why the average salaries are lower for this bucket.
Really across the board in this thread, Amazon and Capital One have been skewing averages. BloomTech is also skewed by Amazon right now. With fewer people hiring, less diverse outcomes, and these two pay mostly in cash, hence high "base salaries".
I really dislike how people quote CIRR and yell at me so much on here. There's so much more nuance to outcomes than the raw numbers.