Typical of a 20-30 people company where everyone has to do different things.
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I saw similar when looking for work as a graphic designer, with duties that can be summarised as "design our printed materials, build our website (with JavaScript knowledge required), and also plan our marketing strategy".
Then when I mentioned this in a Clients from Hell comment section, I got someone defend the practice with that small companies can't afford to hire separate people for the 3 separate skillsets...
Am I crazy that those sound reasonable IT manager level things? If company size is 100-200 endpoints, the IT manager should understand all of these, if he/she doesn't, I would not want to work at that IT team
It manager level for entry level pay
Would be an OK salary for most of Europe. Most countries here have relatively solid health care insurance, affordable education and a pension fund included, so that some of the biggest costs of living in the US don't even make a dent in the salary.
That shit would be 45-60k here and it infuriates me.
It’s three jobs on a slow day.
I don't give a shit about the broadness. I'll do whatever they want for my salary . 100k though is 50k short of I'm being generous.
A German three letter agency had a similar ad. They were looking for someone who was proficient in encryption, hacking, protocols on Windows, Mac and Linux, and a few other things in that area. Experienced both in programming and leadership. And as a cherry on the top, this person would have to have knowledge about all the legal aspects of all of this, too.
All for a midrange bureaucrat salary. A security expert commented on this something like "if i had someone with that kind of skill set and experience, I would hire him out for a daily fee about as high as their offered monthly salary."
Many years ago I got offered 20% over minimum wage to manage, among other things, all email servers of a large banking association representing >90% of a national market.
It was less than what a Tesco cashier was making in the area.
That looks closer to a 220~260k salary job posting.
100~110k in LA area is entry level IT.
in the rest of the world that is basically a three-job salary.
It's USD 8333 per month, or EUR 7177. I wouldn't say 3 jobs, but pretty good even if it has to feed a whole family and/or taxes are high.
You aren't going to get close to that amount per month after taxes and health care. Its definitely not minimum wage, its around a teacher salary, or entry level office worker
Yeah I was gonna say. I didn't understand what people were complaining about, that's loads of money to me. I know stuff's more expensive in the US but it's not that much more expensive that 100k isn't an insane amount of money to live off.
You have to have so much more reserves in the US because of the broken health care system, and the car dependence. I live in Germany and my wife and I were thinking about how much more we'd need to save and we found out that we didn't need that much. Healthcare is basically free, we don't have a car, we had enough for a new set of appliances and months of rent. All that with about a half of that salary. But in the US you can easily go broke with that amount of money if you get sick or have car troubles. Also depending on the state poor job security.
That's about 5-6k a month pay, with rent around 3-4k a month
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You won’t get away with 100k if printer issues are included.. your soul and those of the other employees would be a start.
God, I hate printers.
Don't work with me, I manage 60+ across 2 sites with 3 separate-function print servers.
Anyone else here still manage a fleet of dot matrix??? We've got about a dozen left 😅
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rm - Rf /var/spool/*lp*
kill -9 ‘ps - ef | grep lpd | awk '{print $2}'‘
done
As a system administrator, I've done all of these to some extent. But at that pay range, it better be part-time.
Well it doesn't say you have to do any of them well.
If its a small company you are going to have people split between multiple things as it doesn't make financial sense to have 3 specialists.
Where I work is under 30 people, we don't have a HR department or even a HR role. HR is done by someone who also has other roles to fill.
Well you must have excellent communication skills.
For the actual IT stuff, they don't really care.
That one’s the dealbreaker. If you do all that stuff, you only have time for a grunt or two from behind your 17 inch TFT monitor.
I really thought the response was an AI suggestion at first glance; that would’ve been hilarious.
I usually reply to shit job offers and tell them why it’s shit.
Even when I’m not interested in the job, if it’s anything but full time work from home I’ll let them know I’m only considering ft wfh so that they either raise their offer or reconsider their in-office requirement for the next person that’s actually interested.
this sounds... entirely reasonable? like, had it not been in california that's about what i expect a position with those responsibilities to pay. the median income here is just below $40k a year and for an it manager these are all completely expected skills. i don't get it.
- The responsibilities are way outside of a typical it admin job
- Starting salary for a junior dev/sure/ops in the area is 90k+
i'd disagree on the first one, that's just par for the course here. and 90k is senior staff engineer territory here. that puts you in the 99.9th percentile.
You probably don't live in America or are underpaid with all this remote work out there.
There's bottom of the barrel for any tech management. Our jira pencil pushers get 130-50..
Staff engineers with actual technical skill clear 200.
There is also the fact that you can tell your actually working 50 hours a week from this post if you read between the lines. Most of my tech friends and myself are doing a solid 25 hours of real work and jiggling the mouse from home for the rest.
I don't get it. Everyone in IT is screaming about the employment crisis. I have a friend who can't even get a job that pays 40k € with a Bachelor's in CS and two years of semi-relevant experience. Are things really that much better in the US that you can get paid over 200k for a job similar to the one in the OP?
Like, I have a similar amount of responsibilities to the OP and closing in on a decade of experience, get paid in your "jira pencil pusher" range and yet consider myself lucky compared to my friends in IT. Granted this is remote work in europe with interesting technical work and open-source aspects, but still...
Yes. But it won't be written like this.
A company that values it's tech workers and that has a decent salary will write a better post, then have you work 3 jobs, because they'll have other decent tech managers to write it.
This post was written by HR at after a Google post for "good it manager skills' for a cfo who doesn't understand a word and just wants it done for cheap.
Younger cs students are just fucked BTW. Despite the screeches AI bad, it's not. It is eating up junior coding jobs and I'm not sure what to say to them or about how new people will learn to code when I have as many agents as I can muster up in my brains context. From a pure velocity perspective there is just no way to compete. I'd never choose, training a junior dev over AI even in it's current state. It's just not efficient to train someone to hand code and learn about what will break, who is going to do stupid shit, architecture, etc. but you don't learn it well being an operator.
well duh. i'm in the top 5% of earners here, and i make just shy of €60k a year before taxes.
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