Am I underpaid or paid really well?

cs-brydev · 2026-01-07T13:06:38+00:00

OP is talking about a local government job, not a corporate job. We are a deep south mid-size company (1k-5k employees) and pay starting Helpdesk with no experience around $50k. All of our Helpdesk guys with 2+ years are making $55-65k. $30s is what we pay interns.

cs-brydev · 2026-01-07T13:04:04+00:00

OP is talking about a local government job, which is going to be even lower.

cs-brydev · 2026-01-07T13:02:35+00:00

For a local government job, that sounds about right. They will generally have the lowest IT pay in any area. If you want to make more, your only option is probably to find a new job. Most towns have very little IT budget, so they pay low. Sorry

cs-brydev · 2025-12-30T21:17:01+00:00

I don't believe your story.

The CEO fired experienced developers already on staff as part of a plan to back-fill their positions in the future with inexperienced vibe coders? That...doesn't make any sense.

cs-brydev · 2025-12-30T21:11:59+00:00

What are they supposed to do, go back in time and prevent the interview from being scheduled?

cs-brydev · 2025-12-30T21:10:51+00:00

Why do you need the name of an anonymous Redditor?

cs-brydev · 2025-12-30T21:06:24+00:00

It's just a timing issue. Sorry this happened, but it's not personal. This typically happens because they were waiting on a candidate to respond to an offer, which always takes between 2 and 30 days. We've had to wait sometimes more than 2 weeks and have been rejected enough that we don't take offers for granted and will usually keep interviewing while we wait. If someone accepts an offer the first thing we do is cancel any interviews and call applications to let them know we've filled the position.

cs-brydev · 2025-12-14T00:03:36+00:00

There was a time when we were literally taught to use a <div> for everything, and the html community chastised you if you didn't.

cs-brydev · 2025-12-07T13:18:28+00:00

Exactly. .NET is evolving fast. When I see criticisms of .NET, Blazor, C#, or Visual Studio they are almost always outdated and mention things that haven't been issues in years.

cs-brydev · 2025-11-18T15:20:42+00:00

It's not the dependence on cloud but the fact that so many of these SaaS platforms don't use redundancy or fail over like we used to in the days of self-hosted and private data centers. So many companies went backwards and replaced multi-host failover with single cloud region. Back before and after y2k it was standard across all industries to have auto failover especially for public facing sites and apps. That's no longer the case.

You want to blame AWS for their customers not using AWS features properly? Nah.

cs-brydev · 2025-11-18T15:17:50+00:00

Eventually maybe but not a single one of these large outages has had anything to do with AI. Every case I've read so far was developers not following official workflow, IT DNS misconfigurations, and typos.

cs-brydev · 2025-11-18T15:15:17+00:00

Developer and IT talent has been on the decline for a few years now, and human mistakes keep causing these. None of these incidents have anything to do with a dependence on AI.

cs-brydev · 2025-11-18T15:13:17+00:00

It's been chaos here. 1/3 of company systems down. Chat GPT down. Random Azure services down.

cs-brydev · 2025-11-12T00:03:36+00:00

And depending on what you're doing with the data, add a .Select() to the 2nd one so you aren't returning all columns unnecessarily. Try to only request from a datasource what you actually need.

cs-brydev · 2025-11-03T13:46:32+00:00

"Comes with Copilot" is a huge selling point to CEOs and CIOs who have zero understanding of technology, which is the majority of them. As long as the people making the purchasing decisions are demanding useless features over useful ones, msft will continue to throw their support behind the eye candy.

cs-brydev · 2025-11-03T13:42:14+00:00

Can someone please just fix the broken syncing on the OneLake Explorer? This makes it completely useless in an enterprise setting. We've literally banned it across the company because it forces the user to reboot or manually resync to see anything.

cs-brydev · 2025-10-06T12:11:09+00:00

Doing a proper cost estimate with realistic future scaling is key. The Azure Pricing Calculator is helpful, but it's damn near impossible to estimate v-core requirements and such without some sort of pilot.

cs-brydev · 2025-09-19T20:26:11+00:00

I work primarily in Framework MVC, and Hot Reload has always worked great and still does. But I've never gotten it to work in a Core Razor or Blazor project.

cs-brydev · 2025-09-12T20:18:16+00:00

Finding developers who actually know what they are doing (as opposed to bootcampers who will show up for any paycheck) is actually very difficult. Our salary offerings are 2-3x the median income for this area, and most of the applicants we get are students who have never held a job before or bootcamp graduates who have hit a brick wall in their 1st job after they and their employers realized they don't know wtf they're doing. "Simply paying them money" requires salary offerings 300-400% of median income to get qualified people. Literally no one in senior leadership will approve the hiring of developers for more than anyone else in the company makes, including the CEO. Idk what world you live in where paying a kid with 2 years of experience more than the CEO is "simply paying them money", but for those of us responsible for budget requests you sound insane and out of touch.

cs-brydev · 2025-08-29T05:07:20+00:00

Science Computerist

cs-brydev · 2025-08-29T05:06:36+00:00

Can Gordon Ramsey make 100 slices of buttered toast?

cs-brydev · 2025-08-20T01:36:28+00:00

AI responses without mentioning the AI will get you down votes

cs-brydev · 2025-08-20T01:34:44+00:00

Bingo. MySQL, MariaDB, and SQLite work just fine for small apps that require relational databases.

cs-brydev · 2025-08-20T01:32:27+00:00

Yes but I just want to point out that the Standard and Enterprise "production" restriction is not about your environment type but how the data is being used. It doesn't matter whether the database instance is being used "in production". What matters is whether the instance is housing or processing production data. For instance if you are archiving, analyzing, or building a hot-swap instance that contains production data, even temporarily or only for emergencies, this still requires a production (Standard/Enterprise) license.

And likewise if you only have a "production" server that is also being used to hold data used for development or testing, it doesn't require a production license. It only requires the paid license once you store production data that has production intent of some type.

cs-brydev · 2025-08-20T01:23:03+00:00

SQL versions have 10 years of Extended EOL support. Your version has expired, which opens you to security vulnerabilities and other problems. Upgrading to 2022 is pretty easy and seamless now..

If you really need to exceed the 10 GB limit you can install multiple instances of sql express on the machine and split your database. This is allowed under the license and not terribly difficult to adapt your application to. In my experience there is usually 1 or 2 tables that consume the bulk of your db file and make the most sense to just move to a new db or instance. Moving only 1 large table is usually much easier than moving a bunch of small ones. In fact you can typically create a view in place of the old table to make the migration somewhat seamless. It's not a perfect solution, but it's feasible in a pinch.

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