[Rant] Most Software Engineers are Grossly Overpaid...

Lol, what a inexperienced take.

When you handle Millions of data transactions on daily basis, and a single code bug can corrupt all of that data and $hit gets real. That time you will realise why swes are paid heavy for their skills and focus to AVOID such mess up.

Go hire for 10k per month salary and see how employees will not give a $hit about the job and how company goes down the drain by lossing customers due to pathetic product.

Go work for real software company unlike these GS like banks.

Yes we are not solving world hunger, but as long as each one of us are feeding our family and taking care of them, that's more than enough.

if you are overpaid just HR to lower your salary, please don’t Rant here.

Do not agree at all. You people are horrified looking at indian salaries. Thats all it is.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but knowing how to center a div or implement a binary search doesn't make you a genius. It just means you paid attention in your CS classes or watched Abdul Bari YouTube tutorials.

If this is your understanding of software engineering, I feel bad for you.
Nice hidden promotion btw. Like it.

Here's the cold, hard truth: Solving world hunger or curing cancer is a very low paying job/equivalent of volunteering.
Real businesses that create real economic value are able to employ and pay people salaries. That's the one and only truth.

I'd really wanna know your (GS employee) take on engineered financial instruments, quants writing models to outperform markets by 0.1% , and setting up infra to get info 1/10000th of a second earlier.

But it'll probably be as shitty as your take on software engineering, so please ignore.

Looks like developing internal tools at GS isn’t satisfying your ego enough, try joining a good startup with an impactful product or a big tech

Your post just shows your lack of experience and qualification as an engineer. Most probably, you got good JEE score (which gave you perception of grind), got into good college, thereby getting free pass into GS. But since you are a shitty engineer, you were assigned a low impact / useless role. That's why you don't see any impact of your work and are not able to justify your salary.

Let me give you perspective from GS. GS is paying you high salary because they want people with good accumen to stay there, because they can't afford to risk even small thing just due to lack of talent. You being from good college makes them think you are smart (you clearly aren't). There. That's the reason you are paid what you are being paid. You are being compensated for your efforts to get into good college.

Petition for downvote in GV

This shit is why downvotes should be added @Micheal_Scott

Everyone is replaceable, the only good thing you can do is be a good person, so atleast you are remembered behind your back.

Same is for a software developer, doctor, businessman, CXO, CA etc.

Curing cancer or solving world hunger, let’s face that, even if we cure cancer, that treatment will be way commoditised and ultimately if will be corporations that will be making money, not the researchers who has cured cancer, he will win a nobel prize, though.

The only good thought is, not let success get into your head, varna your nobel idea or you, both will be mocked to hell (cough - bhavesh agarwal - ola)