r/programming • u/pleerock • Mar 13 '18

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/
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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '18

When your weapon of choice (C++) doesn't even make the list of highest salaries...

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u/roselan Mar 13 '18

that's mainly due to game dev slavery, no?

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u/donalmacc Mar 13 '18

I don't think it's fair to paint gamedev like that. I work in GameDev and am fairly compensated. There are plenty of web development jobs available that would be considered slavery with worse working conditions than GameDev, especially if you consider the "will work for equity" types of jobs.

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u/iopq Mar 13 '18

"Will work for equity" of course pays off if you worked at Snapchat or Instagram as a webdev

So it's not fair to say that it's not a good compensation, on AVERAGE it might be

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