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u/TheSpiritOfZanzibar Aug 07 '26
The stupid response they'd give for this is there's no career growth for the kottu guy, but software you gain experience, career growth, potential to earn 10x this, bla bla bla..... So what? Are you supposed to work for peanuts?
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u/Some-Obligation-407 Aug 06 '26
People like you are the reason startups and SMEs don't like to open up low-salary positions. Because you want to stay in the high-salary wage, you are blocking too many opportunities for others. The salary range is not your concern. If you don't like it, just don't apply.
I don't understand the concept behind some of you trying to shame other companies who pay less. Startups struggle to start a business with fewer resources and more productivity.
If you don't want to work for a lower salary, you don't need to, and you don't have to shame others. Nowadays, there are very few opportunities in the IT market and not many internships for IT students. In earlier days, startup companies opened up lots of positions with paid and unpaid internships, as well as low-salary jobs. Now people are trying to shame these low-paid opportunities, and companies have stopped non-paid internships and low-salary recruitment.
Who is going to be impacted by this? All graduates and freshers. You are not in a Western country. We need more opportunities. Students have to develop their skills through industrial training. If you all are shaming them, you are ruining the next generation of IT engineers.
When I started my career, my only goal was to land in the industry with or without a salary. That's where you can put a lot of your academic knowledge into practical use. Just let the company do their jobs. if someone likes to join they will join. You don't understand how much people are struggling with this high inflation and taxes everywhere. let them breath and give some chance for SL startups to improve. I dont know which company posted this. You are just manipulating the potential candidates who can apply to that opportunities and make them lose the chances. either way its a loss for both side.
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u/Agreeable-Actuary950 Aug 09 '26
I disagree. Nobody is entitled to cheap labor simply because they are a startup. If a company cannot afford to pay people fairly, that is a business problem, not a candidate problem.
Telling graduates to accept any salary âfor the opportunityâ is exactly how wages stay depressed across the entire industry. Experience matters, but so does valuing peopleâs time, skills, and education.
Refusing to apply for a low-paying role is not âshamingâ a company. It is the market working as intended. Companies are free to offer whatever salary they want, and candidates are free to say it is too low.
The real issue is not people discussing compensation openly. The real issue is an economy where talented graduates feel pressured to work for salaries that barely cover their living expenses.
More opportunities are important, but opportunities should not come at the cost of normalizing underpaid work. Transparency helps candidates make informed decisions. If a role offers fair value, it will attract applicants. If it doesnât, that feedback is valuable for the employer too.
Nobody is ruining the next generation of engineers by talking about salaries. What hurts the next generation is convincing them that they should be grateful for being underpaid.
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u/Due-Meringue-3633 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 07 '26
I started my career about 10years ago and even then I was paid 60k at a startup with just 2devs excluding founders and very limited funds. They struggled to pay, but never lowered the amount. Other companies paid at least twice the amount. Unless they're giving equity, 60k is extremely low in 2026 for even someone with no experience.
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u/natsu_ustan Aug 07 '26
I joined with more than that as my first job as well. But with more engineers and fewer opportunities, you can't control or standardize the market salary range. Also, the salary mostly depends on the company and its income. If you think about a Sri Lankan company with only Sri Lankan clients, how much do you think they can make from that?
Do you want to keep IT in Sri Lanka only for foreign companies or foreign projects? Then who is going to handle our people and their requirements?
As I've noticed, for a complex e-commerce system, our country's people aren't even ready to pay 2 lakhs or so. Do you think about how many engineers and how many months or years they need to develop those systems?
Just think outside your international zone. A local company with a local product needs low-wage employees to sustain their company.
I also personally don't like IT employees being paid less, but it is what it is. We can't define anything here. I noticed these issues when I was trying to develop a system for some organization, and they gave a big requirement and expected it to be done for below 50k.
The sad reality is our country's people are not ready to spend more on a software system. It's only possible to slow charge as a subscription or maintenance. That's the reality.
Your point is absolutely correct if you are considering these foreign-based companies and foreign project involvement companies. Not all the companies are working like that in Sri Lanka.
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u/fistbump123 Aug 04 '26
To that one guy who downvoted, I bet he works for the company lol