No, you're not competing with them. AmaGooBookSoft hires, to a first approximation, only pedigreed developers with their AKC papers in hand. They're competing for a limited supply of those developers.
But, in fact, a mutt developer you rescue from the dev pound catches a ball just as well, and may in fact be more healthy than the purebreds that Google is hiring.
You know this has to be true, because outside of AmaGooBookSoft (actually: pretty much just GooBook), nobody makes those wages anyways. Even accounting for the (wildly optimistic) company projections for equity value.
But, in fact, a mutt developer you rescue from the dev pound catches a ball just as well, and may in fact be more healthy than the purebreds that Google is hiring.
You know this has to be true, because outside of AmaGooBookSoft (actually: pretty much just GooBook), nobody makes those wages anyways. Even accounting for the (wildly optimistic) company projections for equity value.