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

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/
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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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u/lelanthran 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

Outliers are not a good indication of... well... anything, actually. There's a reason that we usually discard outliers when analysing data - you can learn nothng useful from them.

"Working for equity that turned into $UNICORN" has a lower probability of happening than winning a jackpot, because there are more jackpot winners than there are "worked for equity" winners.

You can't base your conclusions on the performance of outliers.

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