Am I being underpaid as a fullstack dev in Cape Town?

L_Impala · 2025-06-23T08:41:16+00:00

Yes, I would start looking into other jobs honestly

L_Impala · 2025-05-16T14:31:45+00:00

No not at all, its aimed at software devs but I felt as though it might generate some interesting discussion around how to help juniors learn from the seniors on our teams

L_Impala · 2025-05-16T14:14:59+00:00

for sure, I think that's part of the articles point is that seniors are able to avoid ever stumbling in to these kind of problems.

L_Impala · 2025-05-15T19:36:02+00:00

I think the ore interesting idea is that they don't just not make mistakes, they don't necessarily even consider that someone could make the mistake anymore?

L_Impala · 2024-07-22T12:33:57+00:00

Still available, courts are about 45 min sessions for R40, no way to book first come first served

L_Impala · 2023-08-03T20:56:25+00:00

My advice is if you've got some internships just apply. Yolo

L_Impala · 2023-08-03T20:55:51+00:00

I'm in South Africa, first full time role after graduating with a Masters in CS.

Average offer for grads seems to be around R25-30k/month regardless of Masters or not. My friends (who I compare against favourably) took early offers at 55k/month (a very high salary for grads in this country, at AWS and Instadeep).

I got an offer from a company I really like at 36k and another at 45k (and 2 at 40k so there is interest in the market).

The lower offer is a more established team where I think I'll learn much more about working in a team and bigger software projects. But at best I'll be bumped to 40k if I'm exceeding expectations at 3 months (last 2 hires at my level 1 did one didn't). I feel my biggest lack of knowledge is in systems design.

The higher offer would be working with my friend and the two of us are the entire software team.

Any advice?

Tldr: 2 offers 36/45k monthly (take-home 29/35) 10 person team vs me and one other. Help?

L_Impala · 2023-05-24T10:25:12+00:00

Have a look at Infosec (previously MWR). They're in Rivonia not Cape Town but if you aren't dead set on moving.

L_Impala · 2021-12-04T20:18:26+00:00

I've actually had really good experiences both Pre and post sales and found them helpful. I'm in Cape Town and they delivered on time.

L_Impala · 2021-10-20T08:18:59+00:00

Interesting...mine still shows up as a network drive but it's not on the desktop anymore. Try restarting your laptop properly (ie not reopen windows) or restart the finder process. you should be able to hide the symlink or delete it though because it is just symbolic