I don't feel like discussing my salary publicly. Have you considered checking glassdoor.com or other similar sources?
Make a throwaway then, same result as if you'd posted to Glassdoor
Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is one major problem with glassdoor - the salaries that are collected today are grouped together with salaries that were collected 7 years ago. Which is why you always see lower salaries looking at the glassdoor. This post is to get a (however small) current sample and it is purely to help me evaluate a couple of opportunities, no commercial interest whatsoever.
Salaries I see on Glass Door for Amazon for Scottish jobs are fairly accurate. A Developer will make anywhere between £35k and £50k depending on experience (this matches with what I saw when I was looking for a job a year ago)
Yeah, the serious money's in contracting in London. You can make anywhere from 400-600 per day.
Get yourself a solid year long stint somewhere & the pay will be £100k - £150k
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#33Check out https://www.transparentcareer.com you can filter by any function in the organization, educational background, years of experience, recency of data, etc. We tried to include as much granularity as possible to avoid the issues with glassdoor. After you sign up, navigate to the career explorer, you should be able to get the information you need without being required to add a ton of personal information. More…
Requiring the education section is kinda silly given the number of people that haven't gone to college in the industry.
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#34Only slightly related. Since many google employees will be here: How can I plan to land a job with google in 2 years if I have a physics masters and 1.5 years of web development + little exp. with other software stacks? I am trying to figure out a strategy to make it happen and I am willing to do anything, even go back to school. * How can I get an interview? It seems simply sending my resume through the online porta…
Satire? Feels like something that would be a great fit for The Onion if it had a "job search" section. The fact that this account has only made a total of 2 posts makes me wonder if they're just trolling.
> I want to work at google because I want to work with the people there who are just the smartest people around
Be careful with that kool-aid, it's toxic in high doses.
Re: Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?
#35Glassdoor is the place you want to go for this kind of information. You're not going to get anywhere near a large enough sample from a few comments on HN.
There is one major problem with glassdoor - the salaries that are collected today are grouped together with salaries that were collected 7 years ago. Which is why you always see lower salaries looking at the glassdoor. This post is to get a (however small) current sample and it is purely to help me evaluate a couple of opportunities, no commercial interest whatsoever.
Your better bet is to post the data you're evaluating and asking for opinions. You won't collect enough data to be meaningful in a post like this, so if you're limited to anecdotes and opinions, you might as well get anecdotes and opinions that relate directly to your situation.
Here's what (I think) is important to know to help you -
Role
Your years of experience
Size/function of org, assuming you don't want to name the companies
Public, or Private (and what stage)
Base
RSU or Options w/ offer
Annual Bonus potential
I'm sure you don't want to entirely out yourself, but some of that info will help you get better answers.
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Wow, that's shockingly low :(
European tech salaries are famously lower than US salaries. Southern Europe is even worse. I was offered a role of Senior/Lead engineer (with over 10 years exp) for "maximum salary of 45k Euro". And was told by their recruiter that this is considered high for Spain.
I know, I live and work in UK and still the up to £50k in the company like Amazon sounds dirt low, I know devs working for DailyMail (!!) for ~£90k
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow, that's shockingly low :(
European tech salaries are famously lower than US salaries. Southern Europe is even worse. I was offered a role of Senior/Lead engineer (with over 10 years exp) for "maximum salary of 45k Euro". And was told by their recruiter that this is considered high for Spain.
Really depends on the location within Spain like other Euro countries like the UK. In Barcelona or Madrid a Lead engineer at the right firm will be hitting around 100-110k euros.
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#38Staff SWE, Google Seattle. Total 2018 comp will be around 550k with a roughly 55/45 equity/cash split if GOOG shares remain constant. Historically they have typically gone up meaningfully over the course of any given year. The cash component includes base salary and bonus.
Is Staff SWE different from regular SWE? What's the difference?
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The people making a lot above average (because they negotiated well) generally don't want to share this publicly, because others will realise they are then being underpaid. As an example: would you tell a colleague "on the same level" as you that you're making $300k, when he is making $50 or $100k? That's either 1) an excellent way to get fired, because now everyone wants $300k, or 2) an excellent way to piss off you…
It is technically illegal to fire you for discussing this, at least in the US. I know at Google there's supposedly a big internal salary sharing doc started by Erica Baker, and she wasn't fired for it (although her manager was supposedly quite unhappy).
> It is technically illegal to fire you for discussing this, at least in the US.
Funny, I know of American corporation which operates low cost center over here while paying 30-40% of American salaries and forbidding the employee from sharing its salary for 10 years (sic!) in the employment contract.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
As an (hypothetical) employer I now know that, ceteris paribus, I only need to offer you around 65k USD to come and work for me, even if I was prepared to offer you 90k USD. I agree though that we would, on average, be better off if all of us agreed to share salaries publicly.
If other employees of yours also publicly share what they earn, you won't be able to do that, as you noted. Besides, other employers will see that you under pay and offer him more and you'll need to compete on price or you will use talented employees and left with lemons.
It's not quite that easy though. Let's assume sharing salaries is common. I see that you make 60k USD and your colleagues are on 70k USD each. As another potential employer, do I assume you are undervalued or just perform worse than your colleagues making 10k USD more?
We seem to be caught up in an uncomfortable hybrid world where salaries are sort of related to performance, but not really. If we just chose one way or another, that would sort out a lot of problems immediately.