[Latteland]

130k plus is the typical salary with a college grad in a top company. We are a startup in Seattle, not a unicorn, you've probably not heard of us, and we pay 135k + options for new college hires. We are told our comp is too low by people.

[strikelaserclaw]

I mean those are your cream of the crop type candidates i'm assuming not a person who just got pumped out of a 12 week bootcamp. I would assume < 10% of people with no experience entering the field get 100k+. Even 10% might be a large number.

[Latteland]

They are very good bachelors. I don't think someone with 12 weeks in bootcamp can pass the interview bar. We ask about multithreaded programming in C++, a series of programming challenges, and about theory of computer science, software engineering principals. Nothing that I wouldn't expect from my previous experience with fang like companies.

[mattmanser]

Why would a frontend dev need to know multithreaded programming in C++, knowledge which a tiny percentage of startups need?

FAANG are recruiting high-level programmers, not people hooking up forms to APIs.

[Latteland]

I think I missed something - my startup needs backend devs, not frontend.