Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?
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@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@Dashrender said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
You're right, those people won't at the office either.. so really, they should likely just be unemployed, but we don't have a system for those people - we don't have a wellfare system to keep them at home yet having money to live.
Right now we do, they are called welfare companies and they use public funds to put people who have no value to the economy in seats. The military heavily subsidizes these companies, as an example, like Lockheed. They hide the true unemployment numbers by making fake jobs for useless people.
Even normal companies, like MS, Google, McDonalds, etc. are given huge sums of money to employ the otherwise unemployable. Normally in tax advantages or some kinds of contracts.
At the end of the day, you, as an American, pay double for these people than you would if they were just on straight welfare.
I'm currently at a Goodwill office, the irony isn't lost on me.
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@thecreaitvone91 said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
Systems Admins just do day to day operations and keep things running they don't have an descision making whatsoever.
They do the BUSINESS decision making - the stuff that matters in real time. Engineers get to plan and take it easy. Admins deal with the live customer-impacting world.
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@thecreaitvone91 said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
The systems administrators have everything already decided, they just need to troubleshoot, fix, update, monitor.
Right, they do the expensive and hard stuff. Choosing an OS, application, etc. is relatively easy compared to supporting it and dealing with live issues.
Not to trivialize engineering, because it's still hard when done well, but the building of a server is a tiny effort and risk compared to the running of that server.
Same with software - it's cheaper to create new software than it is to properly support and maintain existing software. Same with systems. It costs very little and requires relatively little expertise to pick out the pieces and even set something up in most cases. And then throw it over the wall for the real experts to deal with when it counts.
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@thecreaitvone91 said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
Or as Google says:
A systems administrator manages the systems, while a systems engineer has more power over their design: what OS to use, what infrastructure and software is going to be used, what's the best solution for certain problem, etc etc.Exactly what I'm using as the same basis. Engineers have the power over design.
On Wall St. there are more tiers to admin than to engineer. Engineers get the soft benefits like flexible hours and lots of meetings. They deal with politics and budgets. Admins deal with the businesses, make the critical company-impacting choices, get woken up in the middle of the night, carry the keys, etc.
Engineers can be criminals or unreliable because they are just designing the systems. Admins carry the keys and have to be trusted with access to data and access to shut down the business and have to be reliable to be able to be reached and capable of responding anytime.
Engineers get to work in pristine, predictable environments. Admins have to work with "what they are given" and all the unknowns and changes that happen when what engineers design get put into the real world.
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Typically we see engineers cap out around $225K. But admins head closer to $500K.
Also, CIOs were more likely to be pulled from the admin ranks, not the engineer ranks. Because engineering was nearly all technical while admins had to be able to do everything an engineer could do, but apply it to the business in real time, deal with active security, and fix what the engineers broke all with the pressure on.
Also, in the SMB space, engineering is the low cost afterthought that admins do. It's maybe 5% of the job, and the easiest 5%. Consider how little knowledge or effort goes into installing a new server, and how much goes into supporting it after it is installed. We often have the most junior staff do the engineering parts because typically it requires the least experience or knowledge, and it can be double checked so doesn't matter even if they get something wrong - there is a chance to fix it before it goes live.
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@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
I know it's a millennial thing to be inefficient and out of touch intentionally. but outside of "failure culture" it's always been ubiquitous.
Funny and sad but true!
Could it be some kind of student mindset that keeps lingering in their brains, even 10 years after they left school?
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I don't work for a tech giant, but I'm hoping where I am now will be more willing to allow work from home, especially since it's clear other than resolving hardware issues, people on my team have been 100% work from home since mid-March and work is getting done.
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@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
Typically we see engineers cap out around $225K. But admins head closer to $500K.
I am making much less then that as an engineer. You have opened my eyes. Do you have some links you could share of jobs in that salary range?
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@Sam-I-Am said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
Typically we see engineers cap out around $225K. But admins head closer to $500K.
I am making much less then that as an engineer. You have opened my eyes. Do you have some links you could share of jobs in that salary range?
Yeah. I'm only about $435K away from max as an administrator
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@EddieJennings said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@Sam-I-Am said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
Typically we see engineers cap out around $225K. But admins head closer to $500K.
I am making much less then that as an engineer. You have opened my eyes. Do you have some links you could share of jobs in that salary range?
Yeah. I'm only about $435K away from max as an administrator
yeah, these crazy numbers Scott loves to show, super rare positions - rare doesn't meant there aren't still hundreds, or even thousands of them at that range, but compared to the millions of IT jobs, they are still super rare.
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@Dashrender said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@EddieJennings said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@Sam-I-Am said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
Typically we see engineers cap out around $225K. But admins head closer to $500K.
I am making much less then that as an engineer. You have opened my eyes. Do you have some links you could share of jobs in that salary range?
Yeah. I'm only about $435K away from max as an administrator
yeah, these crazy numbers Scott loves to show, super rare positions - rare doesn't meant there aren't still hundreds, or even thousands of them at that range, but compared to the millions of IT jobs, they are still super rare.
You can pretty much set your own Pay right now in IT, the problem is you won't find those jobs in SMBs and a lot of people will not jump away from SMBs even though SMBs don't usually value IT the jobs (along with the fact they tend to underpay in general) tend to be much easier and less complex. You get to Large Enterprises and there is a lot more work & more stress.
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@EddieJennings said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@Sam-I-Am said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
Typically we see engineers cap out around $225K. But admins head closer to $500K.
I am making much less then that as an engineer. You have opened my eyes. Do you have some links you could share of jobs in that salary range?
Yeah. I'm only about $435K away from max as an administrator
https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Systems_Administrator/Salary
https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Systems_Engineer/Salary -
@thecreaitvone91 said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
You can pretty much set your own Pay right now in IT
You can? :face_with_monocle:
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@VoIP_n00b said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@EddieJennings said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@Sam-I-Am said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
Typically we see engineers cap out around $225K. But admins head closer to $500K.
I am making much less then that as an engineer. You have opened my eyes. Do you have some links you could share of jobs in that salary range?
Yeah. I'm only about $435K away from max as an administrator
https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Systems_Administrator/Salary
https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Systems_Engineer/SalaryYou'll notice the Avg is dilotued big time by lots of entry level jobs rather than more experienced.
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@thecreaitvone91 said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@VoIP_n00b said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@EddieJennings said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@Sam-I-Am said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
Typically we see engineers cap out around $225K. But admins head closer to $500K.
I am making much less then that as an engineer. You have opened my eyes. Do you have some links you could share of jobs in that salary range?
Yeah. I'm only about $435K away from max as an administrator
https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Systems_Administrator/Salary
https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Systems_Engineer/SalaryYou'll notice the Avg is dilotued big time by lots of entry level jobs rather than more experienced.
And how many of those jobs are real? Granted - this is a payscale site, not a job listing site.. but fake job listings still exist.
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@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
But admins head closer to $500K.
Where?
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@Obsolesce said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
But admins head closer to $500K.
Where?
You can easily get in the $200-250k range but to get above that you pretty much got to go into the research science, supercomputer/computer science kind of stuff IMO.
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@thecreaitvone91 said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@Obsolesce said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
But admins head closer to $500K.
Where?
You can easily get in the $200-250k range but to get above that you pretty much got to go into the research science, supercomputer/computer science kind of stuff IMO.
I don't know though, the way it's been explained, it just seems like a glorified helpdesk role in a way. But I guess for the money, why not.
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@thecreaitvone91 said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@Obsolesce said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
But admins head closer to $500K.
Where?
You can easily get in the $200-250k range but to get above that you pretty much got to go into the research science, supercomputer/computer science kind of stuff IMO.
Scott was the CIO or a step or so below or to the side of that making that much or more on wallstreet. So sure, it's possible, but again, just super rare.
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@thecreaitvone91 said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@Obsolesce said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:
But admins head closer to $500K.
Where?
You can easily get in the $200-250k range but to get above that you pretty much got to go into the research science, supercomputer/computer science kind of stuff IMO.
I think a huge part of this pay is also where you live.
Some company is now looking to allow their employees to WFH, from almost anywhere, but they are going to crush your pay based upon where you choose to live. We talked about it here a few days ago.
