u/Dreaded_Camel

1. PERSONAL DETAILS

• Age: 29
• Education: University degree in Finance (Made a career switch when I was 26 to SWE)
• Work experience: 3 years (4 years total, 1 year in Finance, 1.5 years in first SWE job on track to getting promoted then company went through layoffs and now 1.5 years at current job which im also on track for promotion)
• Civil status: In a relationship
• Children: 0

2. EMPLOYER

• Sector/Industry: Automotive
• Amount of employees: over 3000
• Multinational?: Yes
• Listed company?: No

3. ROLE DETAILS

• Job title: Junior Application Engineer
• Seniority (junior/senior/etc.): Junior
• Working hours per week: 38
• Average working hours per week including overtime: 38
• Shift work of 9 to 5 (or flexible): 9-5
• On-call duty?:
• Vacation days per year: 200 hours
• Education/training possibilities: Yes
• Responsible for personnel?: No

4. SALARY

• Gross salary per month: 3433
• Net salary per month: 2857
• 13th month?: No
• Car/bike provided by the company/fuel card/free public transport?: Travel allowance
• Pension contribution: yes
• Insurance?: No
• Other benefits (bonusses, stock-/option pacakges, etc.): 600e end of year bonus

5. MOBILITY

• City/region of work: Utrecht
• Distance home-work (KM): 16km
• Commuting time home-work: 40 min - 1 hour
• How do you commute?: Public Transport
• Is your travel compensated?: Yes
• Home office possibilities?: yes 2 days a week

6. OTHER

• How easily can you take an extra day off?: easily
• How much do you love your job? (scale 0-10) And why? 6 the work is quite varied from development to DevOps to maintenance to cyber security.
• How stressful is your job? (scale 0-10) And why?: Mostly calm but has rare moments of stress
• What would you advise others who want to pursue the same career?
• Any questions from OP to commenters: Just curious about my salary. I realize I didn't come into the SWE field with a masters in computer science and the market as a whole isnt great plus no being able to speak dutch to a professional level doesnt help so i do kind of get where im at, but feel sort of behind. Any thoughts?
• Other comments: Expecting a promotion this year which will hopefully bump me up to at least 4k a month