[jabbernotty]

> That's a huge exaggeration. In what other field can a bright kid take a 12 week bootcamp and get a job that pays $80k?

They did specify "outside of a couple of tech giants in the USA". Here in Europe, €30K would already be a good starting salary. Personally, 10 years in, I don't expect to reach €80k.

[manfredo]

My first tech job wasn't event at a FAANG company and I made $110k right out of college. My next job was at a ~1,000 person startup and my salary was bumped up to over $160k.

Maybe it's a Europe vs US thing but it's definitely not the case that salary is poor outside of tech giants.

[dbancajas]

bay area? dang that's a lot. is that writing CRUD apps? EE PhD's don't earn that amount even with 2 years experience

[thebean11]

If they specified "outside of the USA" then I totally agree, but the $80k bootcamp salaries are absolutely not from the tech giants!

[benhurmarcel]

> Here in Europe, €30K would already be a good starting salary. Personally, 10 years in, I don't expect to reach €80k.

That's on par with engineers in any other discipline. Except those have a Masters, not just a bootcamp.

[gryn]

Well in the Paris region, as an additional data point people with a master degree from rather good engineering schools get 35K - 45K euro.

[niij]

Is that before or after taxes?

[jabbernotty]

Convention in Europe is to mention the 'before taxes' number. To the best of my knowledge that is true for at least western Europe.