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"put off by the "low status" of being a programmer" - Must be a different Europe where you are living

If it were the opposite, there wouldn’t be such pay disparities between management and programmers

Is it that much different in US? Beside that, the tech has a general problem of lack of good career progression outside of going into management.

Senior engineer at a tech company pays 350-700k. Thats plenty of money to retire by 45...