Top 23 Tech Jobs (2024)

[@Hashtag__Taco]

I would love to see a video breaking these down more in regards to things like: what these positions day to day is like, what education/career path should be taken to get into the position, what kinds of companies utilize these positions, or where to look to get hired into one of these positions.

[@ColinLate]

Check out my first video!

[@zach.intech]

Thank me for this! 😅 Customer service Business analyst IT specialist Technical Writer Security analyst QA tester Recruiter Project Manager DevOps Marketing Sales Product designer Data scientist Program manager Solution architect Sales engineer Product manager Technical program manager Data science manager Product design manager Software engineer Machine learning & AI engineer Software engineering manager

[@ColinLate]

Thanks!

[@ColinLate]

And at Google: 3) Data Scientist, 2) Product Manager, 1) Software Engineer

[@tanihakuna]

No networking roles 😅 interesting I’d of expected a lot more cybersecurity roles as it’s become more and more of a necessity. Thank you for the viddl

[@ColinLate]

There is a sub set of software engineering roles related to security. They also pay very well at $205,000 median and $382k for the top 10%. But those are just engineers who decided to specialize in security. This data is primarily for tech companies who don’t actually have a ton of variety in those roles. Cybersecurity is in all companies, but is a very small department in comparison with the people building, selling, supporting, and managing the software and business. You only need to secure things after they’re big and you already have a big team. It’s still a high paying career as you see with the security analyst and security software engineer roles.

[@hungry_khid1007]

This list is trash, doesn't even include cloud

[@4strings2play]

Wow... Here in Germany you only get a fraction of that for the same work..

[@ColinLate]

Yes. How much revenue and profit per worker does the company make? Some of it is because of scale. Some of it is because there is less of a supply demand imbalance. Some if it is just the culture of companies and taxes there, especially around equity compensation, which makes up a significant portion of this pay

[@SpartRaw]

Also to add to it, for us companies , in Germany the handman is a little cheap than us.

[@Vivek-rx8lk]

Haha then we getting in decimals in India

[@violetnwankwo]

Can you please help me get one in Germany? 🙏

[@imdefault8048]

I would be interested in your opinion on the field of computer linguistics, as I've been looking into fields to pick from for university and i am not too sure yet how much the demand for that could be in the future as well as how much compensation would be realistic for it.

[@KATLEGO_kat]

Bro looking like he's AI generated, the edits. Anywho thanks for this video very informative 👌🏾

[@shestudios]

Did you miss data engineer? Or is that a subset of another role mentioned?

[@ColinLate]

It is a subset of software engineer but I should have split it out. Levels doesn’t do it well yet

[@ernestopadilla5382]

Really enjoyed the video but why is cybersecurity a little low on your list.

[@ColinLate]

This is based on the median compensation from levels.fyi - Cybersecurity roles can make a lot, but there are fewer of them and the ones at the smaller non-tech companies don't make as much as some of the other roles. There are outliers - specialists and leaders who make a lot, but a lot of cybersecurity roles make less than your average sotware engineer or PM in tech. I would definitely consider this as a career since it's in such high demand and at the top, you can make great income.

[@kurtnelle]

And the things that they build are worth 2 to 3 orders of magnitude more than their compensation. Sigh.

[@ColinLate]

Complicated topic, but you're very right.

[@entertainerbhai1111]

Where are data engineers then?

[@ColinLate]

You’re right. I think that role is different enough but levels doesn’t cleanly delineate them

[@ZJones760]

Interesting that you talked about getting an MBA. I made 95k working in client success in tech and would like to make more money but now I’m in the job market and I’m 41. Would an MBA help at all? I currently only have a bachelors in liberal arts.

[@ColinLate]

Education in US tech is less important than experience. If you can spend the same two years and $200k to network, learn/build a business, then do that and save your money

[@Richard-dl2yp]

Thank you for the video! What are your thoughts on AI replacing the folowing positions?cloud Data scientist, analyst, engineers and similar positions in cloud. I want to get into one of this jobs, with no IT experience. Thank you

[@ColinLate]

It’s honestly hard to say. Many parts of those roles will be automated. Especially data analyst. Data Eng will take a lot longer. Data Scientists will remain longer than analysts and do more in depth research. But in the next few years they all have some demand

[@akziq]

0:40 #23 70k 1:18 #22 109k 1:25 #21 114k 1:43 #20 133k 1:55 #19 135k-190k 2:08 #18 139k-200k 2:21 #17 2:33 #16 139k

[@ColinLate]

Thanks

[@xissoxdb]

How can one develop from a business analyst to a higher paying managing role? Given that you dont want to code yourself

[@ColinLate]

I’m not one myself. To become a people manager requires really good work, luck of the opportunity, and a manager who wants to eventually make you a manager. Sometimes leading to another company. Mentor first. I don’t have enough context to advise further

[@samraorane]

Cyber and info sec are in top 5

[@ColinLate]

Security engineer do earn well but they are software engineers. Top security engineers can make $1m at places like Meta and Google. Security Analysts are not top 5 and make less.

[@oscargiri6470]

how about cloud computing or cloud engineering related roles?

[@ColinLate]

There are dozens of sub categories of software engineers

[@ColinLate]

Those are still valuable for sure. Above average for SWE

[@shamvenkat66]

Did you miss network engineer or it's the sub division of any of the given roles

[@ColinLate]

Software engineers covers 100+ sub specialities. Networking pays a bit more. Do you levels.fyi - by title

[@VeanorSajmon]

Where you live? Where you get that much money 180K as a begginer, that's impressing

[@ColinLate]

These are median, not starting salaries. But I know people made 180k starting in 2016 in sf . Now more but the job market is tougher today

[@ColinLate]

Remote jobs make these more accessible. Check levels.fyi

[@riyasf5566]

Do mobile app developer, has any demand,why u have not included in the list?

[@ColinLate]

It does, but it’s just part of software engineer in this list. The median is only slightly higher but getting a job as a specialist in any in demand area could be good.

[@innocentgamer4713]

Hey i think you forgot about cloud architect or other cloud roles

[@ColinLate]

Cloud architect is a subset of solutions architect

[@azukaabrahamnduka5242]

Interesting narratives

[@ColinLate]

Thanks

[@simoninedu6802]

Where is data analyst placed

[@ColinLate]

Higher than Business Analyst and lower than Data Scientist I would imagine

[@jdizzle22396]

You sound just like Jesse Eisenberg

[@ColinLate]

Which movie?

[@jdizzle22396]

@@ColinLate zombie land

[@ColinLate]

What tech job are you interested in?

[@getknowledge540]

in product manager

[@mathswealth]

Web dev

[@Aleyda-Al]

IT specialist!

[@azukaabrahamnduka5242]

Incredible

[@ColinLate]

Thanks!

[@CaptainDouchie]

surprised nothing related to blockchain

[@ColinLate]

Blockchain is an area of tech and product, not a job function in the company. You can work in a lot of these functions on blockchain. It’s not as prominent as AI/ML software engineer which is the only SWE role subcategory we broke out and even then it was engineers and researchers combined

[@ColinLate]

But yes blockchain developers within the SWE category can do really well

[@Eriiiiiiiick]

hi Sir

[@eugenefritz6669]

This guy watches too much animes.

[@ColinLate]

Honestly curious what you mean