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Which tech companies are both making a lot of money and still allowing remote work?

They're out there, as well as companies that do tech but aren't tech centric, e.g. primary industries like mining.

Tech compensation is bimodal. On one side you have your enterprise/CRUD/corporate devs. No insult intended, that’s where most of the 2.7 million devs work and that’s where I work for most of my long career until 2020. From looking around, compensation is still around $160K - $180K at the high end.

On the other end, you have BigTech salaries that start around $150K at the low end. An intern I mentored in 2021 got a return offer of about that much.

What side do software jobs in mining end up on? That’s not a rhetorical question. I honestly don’t know.

Successful mining companies are absolutely rolling in cash. Mining services companies do very well as well. It's a big pay bracket, but the higher end of it goes very, very high.

Which one isn't?

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple, Netflix

Which tech companies are profitable, pay in the same range as those 6 and are still allowing fully remote work?

In this environment, I wouldn’t move to any company that’s not profitable. Not that profitability prevents layoffs. I definitely wouldn’t hang my hat on “equity” in a non public company.

I think all of them still allow full remote. Unfortunately not everyone gets that anymore, in spite of the pandemic showing that WFH was fully efficient.

For most of the ones I mentioned you have to get high level approval these days. There are some positions and departments that are exempt. But it doesn’t seem the case for software engineers at those companies.

I work at AWS. But my position “cloud consulting” was always designed to be fully remote even pre-Covid. I was assigned to a “virtual office” when I was hired.

If they had changed that, there would have had to have been a long conversation about compensation increase. I agreed to my compensation explicitly because it was fully remote in a lower cost of living area.

I still honestly would have only stuck it out until the job market improved.

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