90k a year is totally doable for medium-experience software in principle, but in southeast Michigan I'm much less sure. The salaries are laid out differently.
For those coming into the industry from outside, the real questions may be less about what you're capable of programming, and more about your wisdom in producing code that works well with other code and with the realities of failure. It's hard enough to get a good sense of how much of that wisdom you have even when you are a software engineer...
For those coming into the industry from outside, the real questions may be less about what you're capable of programming, and more about your wisdom in producing code that works well with other code and with the realities of failure. It's hard enough to get a good sense of how much of that wisdom you have even when you are a software engineer...