We have a lot of UK expats at the shop, apparently it's very easy to poach the equivalent of MIT grads and some YOE with a wage that's barely above an intern over here...
I don't understand it either.
I don't understand it either.
15 YOE down the road and you are making $80k as a good senior SWE. You are absolutely bewildered that your American friends who you studied with make comfortably double that.
Make it make sense.