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Gergely Orosz
gergely.pragmaticengineer.com
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Here's what triggered to write the Trimodal nature of software engineering compensation:
At a time when the median salary for senior devs in the Netherlands was ~€65K, I made €240-280K per year, about 5x that amount.
Most people did not know this tier existed back then:
2026-06-08T19:15:23.983Z