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Software Development Engineering Intern

Developer/Engineering Generalist

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Pursuing Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Free Corporate Housing for the Summer

South Asian (India, Pakistan, Nepal, etc)

Developer/Engineering Generalist

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Master's (2 year - graduate) degree

401k, public transport allowance,

Had another offer, asked them to match it

Really chilled so far. May be work until 10pm.

South Asian (India, Pakistan, Nepal, etc)

Machine learning, Python, ecommerce,

Software Development Engineer II

Developer/Engineering Generalist

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Worked in unrelated fields. Military, security guard, strength coach, etc.

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Refreshers after yearly reviews, 2-3 year vest

non compete isn't enforced

East Asian (China, Japan, Korea, etc)

Contractor (primarily one employer)

Systems Administrator (SysAdmin)

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Pursuing Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Associate's (2 year) degree

Working on bachelors degree part time

Equity available but I do not want to buy

3% matched 401k, 3wk vacation a year and infinite sick leave

Initial offer 44000 was low, should have negotiated more - could have achieved 50k

Lots of people breaking their stuff, lots of tickets that come in and very busy

N/A due to sensitive nature of work

Aside from normal performance bonuses, no

White (Europe, European descent)

Mobile Application Developer

Mobile app developer/Mobile app engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Retail inventory management

3 yr 8mo of experience track: IT Helpdesk (7mo - University Position)) -> QA Engineer Intern (1yr 10mo - Hotel STB company) -> Developer Intern (5mo - industrial lube/grease company) -> Developer Intern (3mo - retail inventory company) -> Developer Full Time (7mo - same retail inventory company)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

B.S. Software Engineering

50% of matching up to 8% of employee contributions, free health/dental insurance (vision as well but costs more)

Initial offer was above the number I stated would be satisfactory, did not pursue higher salary

Retail companies do most of their inventory counts in January, generally late at night while store is closed. I have not gone through that yet.

White (Europe, European descent)

Developer/Engineering Generalist

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Computer Science and Math double major at Cornell

401k matching, health benefits, food, wellness benefit

It depends on the time of year. My team's oncall is for tracking performance regressions, so it's not usually critical.

White (Europe, European descent)

Systems Administrator (SysAdmin)

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Pursuing Bachelor's (4 year) degree

White (Europe, European descent)

Developer/Engineering Generalist

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Interned at a different company previously

Pursuing Bachelor's (4 year) degree

free unlimited subway card for the summer

White (Europe, European descent)

I want to put myself in a position where I will the flexibility to choose what I want to work on and where I want to work at. In 10/15/20 years I want to have the ability and expertise to try and create something. I want to in a place financially where I can afford to do what I want, and I can afford to help others. Ultimately, I want to be happy, and the things that make me happy chance as I grow and gain/lose interests. I want to be in a place where I can do the things that I love, whatever they shall be.

Developer/Engineering Generalist

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Pursuing Bachelor's (4 year) degree

White (Europe, European descent)

Member of Technical Staff I

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Pursuing Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Mix of performance and profit sharing

100% 401k match, transportation reimbursement, tuition reimbursement

East Asian (China, Japan, Korea, etc)

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Pursuing Bachelor's (4 year) degree

I finished high school, then started university (5 years). I'll graduate in July 2017, I've been working part-time and sometimes full-time since 2015.

$1000 is a lot in my country for someone who hasn't graduated yet, so no point in negotiating.

Rushing to fix bugs / add features a week before a release. Normally staying until 10 p.m. And then coming back at the office at 9 a.m.

Latin, Central or South American

high performance in education, high performance in work, further education with masters degree asap, get a job in a big 4 / unicorn, specialize in a highly complex domain of computer science / become an expert / work with like-minded colleagues

Developer/Engineering Generalist

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

New job every year or two. Fired once. Minimum 25% salary bump with each new job.

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Jobless for too long. Couldn't walk away from the deal, so didn't risk negotiation

Black (sub-Saharan Africa, sub-Saharan African descent)

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

I was also a CS student (never had a doubt going in, nor now that I am in inudstry). I had 3 summer internships during school (only 1 was a notable company my jr to sr year). I help a part time job for a semester in a non-technical field. Otherwise I have worked with Capital One since graduating (under many different managers though)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Did Okay in HS (sports got in the way). Got accepted into a decent school and realized I should focus on education. Did well in school and got a half ride my jr and sr years.

I negotiated the signing bonus up from 5K. Yearly bonus is very dependent on your raiting at the end of the year.

401k: 6% match dollar for dollar. Plus company will match 1.5% no matter what (meaning I put in 6% company matched 7.5%)

I pay $20 for all my benefits and there decent enough where I've not had any issues doing normal checkups and things (hopefully I won't have anything bad happen to me).

About $3000 training budget for conferences, books, trainings, etc. (I used mine for DefCon and Blackhat this year with some other less notable things).

There was no negotiating my initial compensation with Capital One's college hire process (for anyone joining the program, not just me).

A dedicated 'war room', snacks, coffee, food brought in if necessary. Get shit done now, but right. Bring in engineers, analysts, project managers, etc. Whoever needs to be present will be drug into the room.

There is no official on-call

Yes. We have 'spot awards' and can range in amount but most clear 2k easily. If you work on a midnight release you usually get the next day half off/work from home or the whole day off.

White (Europe, European descent)

Challenging, Change, Happy, Interesting, Drinking

Back-end web developer/Back-end engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Internship and Associate at startup, Associate and Intermediate at Progressive

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Yearly bonus based on company performace, job level, and salary

Company matches up to 6% of salary for 401K, so currently ~$4000 a year

Initial offer was $60K, non-negotiable as that is their standard for college hires

Days starting at 6am and/or going until late in the evening.

White (Europe, European descent)

Live in Kent, Work in Mayfield Village

Mobile app developer/Mobile app engineer

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

I worked in a third world country(Egypt), for 4 companies, then moved to Europe in 2015.

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Just a useless Relocation Package for 1500 Euros, and I only used 250 Euros to just pay for the flight tickets.

40% Voucher for any fashion item sold by Zalando

Middle Eastern or North African

ambitous, smiley, improving

Senior Software Developer

Desktop app developer/Desktop app engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Former senior sysadmin, now programmer for the same company

Pursuing Master's (2 year - graduate) degree

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Non ranked universities for both undergrad and grad

401k matching 3%, health, dental, vision, prescription

First job they offered 51000, secons they offered my curremt senior sysadmin salary for a mid level programmer position

White (Europe, European descent)

GUI Desktop Programming Big 4

Semantic Web Developer

Developer/Engineering Generalist

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Semantic Web / Data Governance

Worked in Restaurants for about 8-9 years. Transitioned into a more Computer Science related field after a couple years at San Francisco City College. Started as a Web Client Support Specialist doing support for webinars, moved onto a start up where I did website and Android development. Got hired by a bigger company to do Configuration on their product and then moved to my current position as a Product Support Engineer before undertaking a full fledged Dev position for the last 9 months.

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Started with intro to C++. Transitioned to Java after my first semester. Took all classes in Java Ceritification path as well as all classes in Android certification path. Took Javascript and MySQL classes as necessary.

3% 401k matching. Annual bonus (I have not received this yet so I can not comment on it. Last year I had not been with the company long enough but was still given 500 in good fortune.)

I had a recruiter find me this position. I was expecting 70k or less. He got me 75k.

Lots of testing, lots of new bugs due to regression and sanity testing. Lots of features and bug fixes getting in before and after code freeze. Very hectic.

Just be reachable within a realistic time frame.

I can not work at competitor within same field for a year. Unsure of repercussions

Latin, Central or South American

Desktop app developer/Desktop app engineer

Mostly remote (sometimes in the office)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Master's (2 year - graduate) degree

East Asian (China, Japan, Korea, etc)

Contractor (primarily one employer)

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Black (sub-Saharan Africa, sub-Saharan African descent)

Front End Software Engineer

Front-end web developer/Front-end engineer

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Worked as graphic design contractor out of college, started learning HTML/CSS and got more advanced from there

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Graduated college in Computer Animation, could not find jobs in Animation in my area. Enrolled in a bootcamp to accelerate my coding skills to become more employable.

Health/Dental/Life, Health Savings Account, 401k matching, Free Parking

Asked for $5,000 more. Did not have any competing offers, so did not want to sound overeager. Was not able to raise my price.

White (Europe, European descent)

creative, design, lucky, imaginative, friendly

Software Developer Coop

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Pursuing Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Monthly metro pass - $150

Coop offer, no negotiation process

East Asian (China, Japan, Korea, etc)

Developer/Engineering Generalist

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Pursuing Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Information Science/Data Science

Manager of Data Integration

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

I have been a "long term" employee. First job, I was at for nearly 5 years. This is just my second job out of college.

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Computer Science; Math; Spanish

401k match, 4 weeks of PTO

Comp hours for overtime worked

White (Europe, European descent)

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

White (Europe, European descent)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Profit sharing, plus annual holiday gift from CEO.

Excellent health coverage, including items like massage therapy; 3 weeks vacation, sick time, and monthly floating day off; family-friendly relaxed work environment.

No crunch time - we actually plan things properly.

White (Europe, European descent)

Associate Software Engineer

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Non CS Job part time during school ($9/hr) -> Unpaid Internship @ USPTO && weekend paid job non CS (~100/day) -> Paid $19/hr Internship @ SAIC -> CS job for University ($10/hr) -> Capital One Fulltime

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Large State School, switched majors to CE my Sophomore year, took summer classes to catch up

Yearly bonus can be anywhere from 1600 - 7800 depending on performance. Most get 2900-4800. Signing bonus was given as a post tax lump sum of $9000 as well as a relocation post tax lump sum of $1500

7.5% 401k Match, 15% discount with ESPP, Expense meals/hotel while traveling), Referral Bonus ( $500 if referral is hired hourly, $1000 if salaried), 1 conference a year (depends on the team).

12-15 hour days sometimes, 8 hour strict time schedule mostly (depends on team)

Rotate between primary and secondary on call. 1 week primary 1 week secondary, off

Yes, boss told us to take the Friday off after we released our product. We did well so they took us out for lunch. We got a few happy hours out of it too

Not sure, would have to read it again.. not worth it for this survey :)

White (Europe, European descent)

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Mostly remote (sometimes in the office)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Associate's (2 year) degree

Computer Systems Technology

South East Asian (Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia and everything in between)

Developer/Engineering Generalist

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Inter for 2 companies (including this one) for 3 months each previously. Started working here 9 months ago.

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Master's (2 year - graduate) degree

BS in Computer Science, MS in Computer Science

Yearly bonuses are given in January and I've only been here for 9 months, so I have no info on this.

100% 401k matching up to 9% of your income.

Try to negotiate, but didn't work lol

We always miss deadlines, so it's not that big of a deal. Lab has a work from home policy, so if needed, you can work from home when especially busy.

South Asian (India, Pakistan, Nepal, etc)

commuting sucks, job is nice, idk what to do with life

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

401k, medical, dental, vision insurance

White (Europe, European descent)

Software Engineering Intern

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Pursuing Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Black (sub-Saharan Africa, sub-Saharan African descent)

Developer/Engineering Generalist

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Started as .net developer, now I'm the development team's manager

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

White (Europe, European descent), Latin, Central or South American

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Retail and food server industries before and a little during college. Started interning towards the end of college/

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Studied computer engineering both hardware and software, became more proficient in web technologies so I perused that route for work since I have internship experience.

401k matching at 6% and a pretty good health insurance policy

Basically I looked that the "Market Average" for both contract and not contract workers, added a few thousand and said I want X amount. They countered a little lower with X-5k and I accepted since that was the amount I was going for any ways.

Since I'm in consulting it's highly dependent on the customer. Each situation is unique, some customers are more challenging to work with than others.

Again, dependent on customer. In some cases if a customer wants to hire me outright they may have to pay my current employer $X

White (Europe, European descent)

Technical Support Analyst

Developer Operations (DevOps)

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

White (Europe, European descent)

Contractor (primarily one employer)

Senior Software Developer

Developer/Engineering Generalist

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Job hopped as contractor

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Master's (2 year - graduate) degree

some high level P1 tickets where you've to work as long as issue isn't resolved

South Asian (India, Pakistan, Nepal, etc)

Developer/Engineering Generalist

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

2 past Internships, 1 with this current company

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Computer Engineering undergrad. Lots of Web Development internship/personal experience to offset the hardware skills

401k matching, Profit Sharing, fantastic health care, flexible schedules, lots of PTO, student loan repayment program, etc....

Black (sub-Saharan Africa, sub-Saharan African descent)

Software engineer Fidelity texas

Back-end web developer/Back-end engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

White (Europe, European descent)

Developer/Engineering Generalist

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

New grad entering industry.

Pursuing Bachelor's (4 year) degree

401k matching, healthcare and dental

Latin, Central or South American

Software Development Engineer

[PREFER NOT TO RESPOND]

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Pursuing Bachelor's (4 year) degree

They denied any negotiation

White (Europe, European descent), Middle Eastern or North African, Jewish

US Military -- SIGINT / Crypto -- 5 years
Government Contractor -- Linux Admin / Network Support -- 3 years
Big ISP -- Network Admin -- 2 years
Jr. Android Developer -- 1 year
Software Engineer -- 2 years
DevOps Manager / Network Manager -- ~2 years

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

As a manager, I get performance-based bonuses depending on uptime, productivity

Options -- 25% vesting per 6 months of time in service

Options "refresh" upon promotion and/or Events

4% 401K matching
30 days paid vacation, subject to blackout periods
Car and cell phone stipend ($0.51 a mile, and $30 for cell)
Flexible work hours; a lot of 7am-3pm or 10am-6pm
Totally cool with remote workers -- a definite plus

Because I'm mostly / entirely remote, and was already an employee before going remote, there was much horse trading prior to leaving. In-person salary would probably be 20-40% higher, though that would not make up for the changes in lifestyle, nor cost of living in the area.

Outages, which are 24/7 until resolved, or prior to customer updates / pushing code to customers, which are more like 10 hour days.

On-duty admin -- handles stuff normally, we have em on day, nights, weekends
On-call admin -- if on-duty is busy or can't get to it, calls or tickets escalate to on-call
Escalation admin -- if things require serious help, or multiple bodies it comes to Escalation on-call, who troubleshoots further or wakes other people up as needed

Employees who pull more than 40 hours generally get comp time off

Probably not enforceable as VA does not look kindly on noncompetes, but bans all network-programming related work after I leave. Other programming work, or ISP / network engineering work, is okay.

White (Europe, European descent)

Quality Assurance/Manual Tester

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Did web development, programming bootcamp, various homelab projects and occasional self study with devops

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Computer Information Systems

Information Technology (Other concentration)

Dabble in all sorts of technology but did not get as deep into IT or Programming in school. Courses leaned more towards business. Had to do more of that by myself

Doing thorough QA over each and every new feature before deployment, as well as making sure previous features did not break. Fairly normal but with a slightly more tense atmosphere.

South East Asian (Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia and everything in between)

Need extra time to myself for personal stuff

Contractor (primarily one employer)

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Part-time jobs during uni: local IT company and TA-ships.

Pursuing Master's (2 year - graduate) degree

Mathematics/Applied Mathematics

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Mathematics/Applied Mathematics

Triple bachelor at local university, master at prestigious university.

New grad, theory, maths, research, learning

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

I undernegotiated because I was a dumb college kid who just wanted a job

Pretty much the same. Maybe more meetings / talking to people

Constantly available and able to answer questions about the related processes

White (Europe, European descent)

Developer/Engineering Generalist

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Software engineering is my first job out of university.

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

401k matching, health insurance

White (Europe, European descent)

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Pursuing Bachelor's (4 year) degree

White (Europe, European descent)

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Same position I was hired into.

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

White (Europe, European descent)

Systems Software Engineer

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Health care / pharmaceuticals

I got my degree at a community college and they helped me find placement with this employer. I have been here ever since. I started as a contractor, then was hired full time and have had three title changes during that time. I get a yearly raise and got more substantial raises with the title upgrades.

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Associate's (2 year) degree

Computer Information Science

401K matching and excellent health benefits (we are a health care provider)

I may have to stay until 7pm

Yes, I cannot work with another employer that would be in direct competition with our product for 90 days

White (Europe, European descent)

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Started as QA intern, applied through LEAP program and was offered SA role

Pursuing Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Completed high school. Currently attending 4th and final year of college.

I believe it's 7% matching but I'm not sure

The LEAP program is a set amount. You cannot negotiate.

I have to stay with the company for 12 months before I move laterally or leave for a different employer.

White (Europe, European descent), East Asian (China, Japan, Korea, etc)

Introverted but opens up when around close friends. I've had many internships and went to a no name school, so I felt that the experience helped me get my current job. I look forward to working!

Senior Software Develope

Developer/Engineering Generalist

50-50 (half the time in the office, half the time not)

4 internships, 2 years in a developement program, 5 in enterprise software in 2 separate companies

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

401k at 50% to 6% salary. IRA at 3% salary, 5 weeks vacation, 1 week sick

White (Europe, European descent)

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

No internships, first "real" job, 2015 grad

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Computer Science and Mathematics

My old manager gave a bonus loosely based off performance. This is not a codified thing, I'm not sure if there will be an annual bonus this time or what it will be.

Small amount of options, fully vested, received as a bonus (in addition to separate cash bonus). Percentage is around 0.06%. Company has venture funding but no recent series. Very unlikely to IPO, fairly likely to sell.

I received no equity upon joining, however I received some fully vested options as a bonus later. I may or may not receive more in the future. This is not performance based.

Medical/Dental/Vision through JustWorks

My initial offer was 50,000. I took the offer without negotiating because I had no internship experience and very poor grades, so I took the first interview/offer I was given. Six months in, I was raised to 60,000. Another raise will be coming shortly.

The company and team is very small. Early on, I was working 50-60 hours a week. I would work some very late nights and some weekends. Things are much more stable now, and even with crunch time, I very rarely work more than 40 hours, although the senior engineer is currently working more than that.

No on-call for me, but we have Slack on our phones and are generally expected to respond in the event of an urgent emergency.

Covers companies directly competing in the industry. Not sure how enforceable it is, I doubt there would be any repercussions for a junior engineer.

White (Europe, European descent)

Live in Jersey City, work in New York City

Automated tester and software engineer

Developer Operations (DevOps)

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Pursuing Master's (2 year - graduate) degree

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

South East Asian (Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia and everything in between)

Desktop app developer/Desktop app engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

medical device manufacturer

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Developer/Engineering Generalist

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Pursuing Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

52000 prorated over 2 years

5 - 15 - 40 - 40 besting schedule

South Asian (India, Pakistan, Nepal, etc)

Back-end web developer/Back-end engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Received choice high salary, low equity or lower salary, higher equity. Negotiated middle-ground.

White (Europe, European descent)

Back-end web developer/Back-end engineer

Mostly remote (sometimes in the office)

Worked for 4 different companies. The last I was at for 6 years and I plan on being at this one for a while. I started with an internship and became a full time employee at my first company which I was at for 4 years total. I have made my way up and become a good engineer by hanging out and working with people smarter than me. Part of that is not sacrificing my standards of workplace. In other words I don't take a job with a company that is not full of people who are passionate about what they do and whose leaders care about software quality.

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Some college or university courses (no degree)

I started with community college and began an internship with a software company. After taking only a couple classes at a 4 year university that I transferred to, I became a full time employee. Later (5 years later) I took more computer science classes online which I found to be helpful. For the most part I have been self-taught.

Not directly; it is profit sharing

Health, dental, vision, 401k matching, life insurance, profit sharing, short-term disability

Most people are heads down at their desk. Everyone respects that and does not bother someone unless it is completely necessary. We try to take occasional breaks together.

White (Europe, European descent)

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

401k matching full health HSA contribution

Latin, Central or South American

Contractor (primarily one employer)

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

First job after university as a CS grad

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Wasn't provided initial offer. I first suggested $60k.

White (Europe, European descent)

Live in Jersey City. Work in NYC.

New york,nyc,back end,full stack,javascript

Associate Software Engineer

Developer/Engineering Generalist

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

First real job after second bachelor's degree in CS. No calls back from even minimum wage positions for first degree (non STEM)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

401 k match (half of 5% of salary)

White (Europe, European descent)

boring, no creativity, high pay

Contractor (primarily one employer)

Mobile Software Developer

Mobile app developer/Mobile app engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

I was a civil engineer until April 1, when I quit and became Xamarin certified by April 23. I began working for Alaska in mid July.

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

A terrible 401k plan and decent health care.

I met my manager directly but was then directed through a consultant firm. I was given an offer of $45/hr, and considering my experience, I did not feel I needed to negotiate.

55-60 hour days, very infrequently.

According to the contract, the consultant firm I am signed with can block me from working with "any current clients or future potential clients", i.e., everyone. I firmly believe it is entirely unenforceable.

White (Europe, European descent)

Engineer, Developer, Nerd, Junior, Architect, Wealthy

Systems Software Engineer

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Internship, in line with job and career focus

Pursuing Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Computer Science & Engineering

Some college or university courses (no degree)

White (Europe, European descent)

Back-end web developer/Back-end engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Marketing and sales growth software

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

I went to a liberal arts school and studied philosophy and computer science. I taught myself web development skills on the side during college

They are merit based at the time of yearly compensation changes

Longer hours, changing requirements, work outside of peak software usage hours

I don't really worry about it. I occasionally get woken up by a page but it's never critical

Extra time off occasionally and generally nights out on the company

White (Europe, European descent)

Systems Software Engineer

Machine learning software

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Computer Science + minor in Math

Attend San Jose State University

Health insurance 100% covered for employee

White (Europe, European descent)

Developer/Engineering Generalist

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Started with 5 years at a Big 4, then job hopped to a smaller corp

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Master's (2 year - graduate) degree

Bachelor's at a State school, Master's at a top 5 university

Negotiated to receive higher amounts, via competing job offers

50% match on full, free meals

Several other offers -- large pre-IPO equity offer (~550k) helped negotiate higher cash bonus/comp with my current employer

White (Europe, European descent)

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

I was an applications support and robotics engineer in the automated manufacturing industry before moving into data. I have a BS and a MS in ME

Pursuing Master's (2 year - graduate) degree

Master's (2 year - graduate) degree

Bs ME, ms ME and robotics

401k matching (50% of first 6%), 5k towards educations, 1k towards professional development, 400 towards wellness

White (Europe, European descent)

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Was math grad student, became developer. Switched jobs a few times, started current job as senior and worked up to lead.

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Mathematics/Applied Mathematics

Master's (2 year - graduate) degree

Mathematics/Applied Mathematics

State school undergrad, private graduate.

Stock options, yearly vesting

Asked for 65, got 60 plus 5 bonus

White (Europe, European descent)

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

White (Europe, European descent)

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

White (Europe, European descent)

Embedded systems developer/IoT engineer

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Embedded systems consulting

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Every full time employee gets 1000

White (Europe, European descent)

Desktop app developer/Desktop app engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

White (Europe, European descent)

Software Development Engineer II

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

This is my 3rd company in 5 years

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Master's (2 year - graduate) degree

Refreshers every performance review yearly

Get paged 2 times on average per week in oncall

South Asian (India, Pakistan, Nepal, etc)

I'm at a comfortable job now, will probably switch to something more challenging soon

Developer/Engineering Generalist

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Pursuing Bachelor's (4 year) degree

White (Europe, European descent)

Senior Software Developer

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Latin, Central or South American

Software Engineering Intern

Developer/Engineering Generalist

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Pursuing Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Health, dental, vision insurance. Could get family coverage if you are a non-traditional student who has a family for example.

White (Europe, European descent)

Lead Operations Engineer

Developer Operations (DevOps)

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

White (Europe, European descent)

Front-end web developer/Front-end engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

White (Europe, European descent)

Application Support Engineer

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Went from IT support to full time dev in the insurance industry and now to a web/marketing company

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Some college or university courses (no degree)

Computer Science / Physics Combined

Left school my senior year for health reasons. Intend to finish my combined degree (so two majors, one degree) in the next year or two. Previously attended a small private school, not known for much besides their theater program.

It's info the recruiter gave me, averages over the past few years. I haven't been there long enough to have gotten one.

Fully covered health insurance, 5% 401k match, free lunches every day, shuttle to/from the train station

Accepted initial offer. It was already a 48% increase, and I wanted to work there.

Can flex time, so if we stay late one week to get over crunch time we can do half days the next week.

White (Europe, European descent)

Back-end web developer/Back-end engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Left this company previously to go work elsewhere and came back after a year. This is my 6th permanent job in 10 years.

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Standard 4-year tech school.

RSUs in a public company. Company is worth $2.3B market value. 4 year total vest (25% per year) with 1 year cliff and quarterly share vesting (6.25% of total reward per quarter).

401k plan with matching, vacation, health/dental/vision plans.

Initial offer of $135K with 600 RSUs, negotiated up to $150K and 700 RSUs by refusing the initial offer.

Issues are initially handled by a NOC and escalated individual teams and people only if the problems can't be solved at a lower level.

Unknown, I've never had to be that involved on it.

Standard policy - can't work in a 'similar' competitor for a year. Enforceable in Massachusetts under threat of litigation.

East Asian (China, Japan, Korea, etc)

Quality Assurance/Manual Tester

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Working my first industry job with my current developer

Pursuing Bachelor's (4 year) degree

computer and computer networking

Information Technology (Other concentration)

Currently studying BSc for computer science. Previously completed vocational school studying computers and computer networking

Development process is very relaxed, no crunch time

White (Europe, European descent)

QA, Denmark, Copenhagen, student, part time, computer science

Mobile app developer/Mobile app engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Master's (2 year - graduate) degree

Advanced Computer Science

White (Europe, European descent)

Mobile app developer/Mobile app engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Front-end web developer/Front-end engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

3rd CS related job, taugh english and did odd jobs before

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

2 years at 2 CS univs each, dropped out from both

Work trips abroad, lunch, exercise and entertainment vouchers

White (Europe, European descent)

self-taught frontend ui laidback remote

Desktop app developer/Desktop app engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Switched jobs in 2016 after graduating in 2013; 2 years of cumulative internship experience in college

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

15% of salary for meeting expectations, higher for better performance

RSUs, negligible percentage of company

Performance based, granted yearly, vesting over four years, roughly proportional to a quarter of initial grant

50% 401k matching up to 9k total, free food, high quality tools and hardware

Initial offer of 250 RSUs. Negotiated up to 350(a 20k/yr increase) using current comp and future unvested stock.

Yes for devs who are on-call

White (Europe, European descent)

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

A web startup in air freight and logistics

I started out working for my University's Museum IT department back in my Sophomore year. I also started doing freelance web contract work on the site. After graduating from college, I worked for a little over a year as a junior developer at a in-shore outsourcing company, mainly working with PHP and JS. At the same time, I also worked on a startup project with friends. After the startup failed, I moved to a different state and continued to work as a full stack web developer, transitioning from PHP to Python, C#, and Java as my backend language. I bounced around jobs every year until 2 years ago. I have worked for companies in finance, stock trading, and eCommerce before my current role.

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Information Technology with concentration in Web Development

Information Technology (Programming, Software Engineering or Computer Science concentration)

I started programming when I was in 7th grade, mainly motivated by video games. I had always wanted to learn more about how computers work, and eventually get into video game programming, AI, and robotics. I started out my college career as a Computer Science major at Michigan State. I didn't do well due to lack of motivations. The classes focused more on theories than actually teaching me to code. I switched to IT in my Sophomore year and started working as a IT assistant. My responsibilities at the time involved everything from keeping the servers running to updating web site designs, and programming the online membership signup and payment system. The classes in the IT curriculum were still boring and slow. I ended up learning more from that IT job than from my classes.

Health insurance that covers dental and vision.

I didn't negotiate for my salary. I wish I did.

"Crunch time" usually only happens when there is a deal coming through. That typically meaning we have to create additional features or generate the necessary data to help sales get the contract. This usually means I would have to work from home after hours, in the evening or during the weekend

As the senior, I am in charge of making sure everything is still working. I am always on call in theory, but I have not had the experience of having to sit at my desk and wait for something to blow up.

East Asian (China, Japan, Korea, etc)

I work primarily as a full stack web developer that does everything from creating prototype from business ideas to develop sustainable, production ready web applications. As a senior, I routinely assist my team on tech problems and evaluating solutions. I am also involved in recruiting, training, and growing a team due to my entrepreneur experience in startups, as well experience in working in big, mature companies with protocols and structures.

Contractor (primarily one employer)

Developer/Engineering Generalist

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Spent a year as test-engineer, moved internally to full developer for another year. Switched companies, by choice and stayed there for another 2.5 years, where I was laid off due to budget cuts. Just started at new company. All of which I was a contractor, where my company helped me move from contract to contract.

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Went to school looking for Game Design and Development. Opted for general Computer Science, later picked up minor for former when school finally offered it. Standard BS track.

401k matching, health,vision,dental,life

annual raises negotiated. 1st year I had a competing offer that I leveraged against, 3rd year was just after a major project that got finished, toted that to get an extra raise. When I switch companies I am asked what I currently make I always give them real+5k, then say that I need a bump to make it worth jumping ship which is usually another 5k on top of that. So far its been within reason for area so I generally get 6-7k more than before

logging on remotely from home after hours

being available to log in remotely to resolve any critical tickets.

If I'm on call, Im getting paid.

White (Europe, European descent)

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

3rd company, first was a system integrator, second software development in a startup. Third consulting

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Lease car, pension, laptop and phone

Offered 42000, negotiated to 47000

Cannot work for clients, cannot do work on the side without permission. No idea if it enforcable

White (Europe, European descent)

Software Engineering Intern

[PREFER NOT TO RESPOND]

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Pursuing Bachelor's (4 year) degree

White (Europe, European descent)

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Some college or university courses (no degree)

Computer Information Systems

Information Technology (Programming, Software Engineering or Computer Science concentration)

Went to college for a bit and then got hired for a software engineering job and dropped out.

401k matching and employee discount

Working for another food/vending employer.

White (Europe, European descent)

Software Development Engineer II

Developer in test/tools for software products

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

RSU, 25% cliff then monthly all over 4 years

Rotate for 1 week. Rotation comes about once per 1.5 months

Can take free days off in rough on call

East Asian (China, Japan, Korea, etc)

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Dropped out of high school to pursue a career in CS. This is my 2nd job

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

General Equivalency Degree (completed high school without a diploma)

White (Europe, European descent)

Sr Systems Analyst/Software Developer

Developer/Engineering Generalist

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Started as a clerk - building a website for our dept and administering access databases. Eventually worked up in the Config Mgmt Dept as an analyst. I got brought onto a project team to build requirements for a new application. Turned out I was the only one who could code - so I started coding up a mock up - and that turned into the actual project. Stayed on that for a few years before accepting a formal developer role two years ago.

Pursuing Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Associate's (2 year) degree

Information Technology (Programming, Software Engineering or Computer Science concentration)

White (Europe, European descent)

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Commercial Pilot, IBM Software Developer, Current Employer

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Majored in Professional Aviation and Spanish. Self taught in software.

401k matching, subsidized medical

Was not able to negotiate an increase

White (Europe, European descent)

professional pilot, windows phone, .net

Back-end web developer/Back-end engineer

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Master's (2 year - graduate) degree

White (Europe, European descent)

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

BA Computer Animation & Visual Effects

White (Europe, European descent)

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Got this right out of graduation

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

3% 401k matching, health and dental insurance, 2 weeks pto paid out for unused at end of year

Asked for 60K, got it. Got a raise to 62.5 last year

No extra hours, but extra stress during the work day. More interruptions

Just that it looks good to the boss

White (Europe, European descent)

This, survey, was, too, long

Back-end web developer/Back-end engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

South East Asian (Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia and everything in between)

Mobile app developer/Mobile app engineer

50-50 (half the time in the office, half the time not)

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Statistics/Applied Statistics

White (Europe, European descent)

Full-stack web developer/Full-stack engineer

Mostly in office (occasional remote allowed)

Health information systems

Started with the company as an intern

Pursuing Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Some college or university courses (no degree)

South East Asian (Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia and everything in between)

Mobile app developer/Mobile app engineer

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Worked in retail stores during school, for a different company

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Associate's degree in CS then transferred to small college to finish Bachelor's

Merchandise discount, 401k matching, health and dental insurance

Initially 55k. Interned for this company last summer. Had no other offers.

On-call during holiday season, perhaps late hours when nearing development deadlines

Bridge call every two hours, email notification on system health

Team lunches, public recognition of efforts

White (Europe, European descent)

Developer, android, engineer, retail, store

Back-end web developer/Back-end engineer

Fully on-site position (never or almost-never remote)

Worked an entry level position unrelated to programming for several years, moving up the chain (including management positions), eventually moved into technical writing, business analysis, and finally moved into software development based on limited self-teaching.

Not currently enrolled in any form of education

Bachelor's (4 year) degree

Began as a Music Education major, switched to (and completed) Anthropology after four years of Music Ed. Almost switched to Computer Science instead, but went with Anthro. at the advice of a college career councilor who administered a "schwami test." Single best piece of advice I can give - do not decide on a degree based on how you feel about the result of a coin flip.

Small 401k matching, no overtime required, 6 miles from home, very relaxed environment.

Spending the full 8 hour day actually on task.

I can't work for another company in the same line of work as this company. I really don't know how binding it is, I agreed to it 15 years ago when I never dreamed I'd be staying in this line of work for so long.

White (Europe, European descent)