These concerns seem similar to other EA engineers we talked to about working at 80k. In particular, lots are more back-end focused rather than front-end, and many were worried about career capital.
It might be one of those cases where lots of people think they’re not ideally suited to the role for reasons like this, but actually everyone else is reasoning in the same way. In reality, someone who doesn’t seem well suited in absolute terms is relatively best positioned to do it.
http://www.benkuhn.net/advantage
I think all these roles pay more than $40k, several more like $70, and Wave pays market rates.
I think some of the roles will be technically interesting. 80k isn’t “building new technology” and mainly uses wordpress, but there’s a lot of design challenges, and, based on our trials, it still seems very challenging to do everything quickly to a high level.
These concerns seem similar to other EA engineers we talked to about working at 80k. In particular, lots are more back-end focused rather than front-end, and many were worried about career capital.
It might be one of those cases where lots of people think they’re not ideally suited to the role for reasons like this, but actually everyone else is reasoning in the same way. In reality, someone who doesn’t seem well suited in absolute terms is relatively best positioned to do it. http://www.benkuhn.net/advantage
I think all these roles pay more than $40k, several more like $70, and Wave pays market rates.
I think some of the roles will be technically interesting. 80k isn’t “building new technology” and mainly uses wordpress, but there’s a lot of design challenges, and, based on our trials, it still seems very challenging to do everything quickly to a high level.
I think the career capital concerns might be overblown as I’ve written about before. https://80000hours.org/2015/11/working-at-effective-altruist-organisations-good-or-bad-for-career-capital/