career.md

Career information

IMNSHO, It's a good time to be a mid/senior-level programmer, average time to be entry level.

Data science jobs are generally following the trend of programming jobs (maybe a bit less pay on average). I expect conditions to only improve over the next 5 years.

About layoffs:

1. Tracking all tech layoffs: https://layoffs.fyi/

2. Which departments get affected: https://interviewing.io/blog/2022-layoffs-engineers-vs-other-departments

About salaries:

1. basically unaffected by layoffs

2. https://www.levels.fyi/

3. devops

4. distributed systems engineer

5. data scientist

CS employees also get great benefits:

1. https://www.levels.fyi/benefits/

2. parental leaves

Salaries are good even though employers illegally collude to reduce salaries

1. The infamous Steve Jobs "smiley face email"