Take CS-61 taught by Eddie Kohler at Harvard

I don't know what's in the CS-61 course, but his UCLA-CS235 Advanced Operating Systems course was REALLY useful. You build the important bits of a multitasking OS.

http://read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/class/10f-aos/

8 years in same company at Waltham, MA (Revenue~700Million)

2010 - Junior software developer - $89000 ($10000 signing) 2011 - Software developer - $92000 2012 - Software developer - $95000 2013 - Software developer - $98000 2014 - Software developer - $104000 2015 - Software developer - $118000 2016 - Senior software developer - $128000 2017 - Senior software developer - $134000 2018 - Senior software developer - $138000

Sorry for asking, but do you get a bonus?

The figures are including bonus. And, forgot to mention that I am getting 700 stock options each year from past 3 years.

Same in our company, where I am tasked with phone screening and it's been horrible to interview junior candidates because most of them are looking for good salary rather than passion for computer science or solving the problems not seen before. Ironically, most of them have completed Master's in computer science as well.

My anecdotes are the complete opposite of yours, so I guess they cancel out :)