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Re: Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?

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Post by gautam1168 »

659087 wrote: post #34
gautam1168 wrote: post #24

Only 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.

No I'm not trolling. But I will post this to job search too if you think that is a better place.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?

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Post by alanmessy »

What about Stack Overflow's yearly survey? That's got a lot of people and has data for salaries by job and geography. It won't tell you where they're working, though. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#salary

ETA: 5yrs exp, Dev III in logistics; $95K/year, ~$6k in stock, insurance fully paid by company.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?

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Post by doktrin »

neospice wrote: post #19
LandR wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Just curious: That seems disproportionately low compared to US salaries. Is cost of living proportionately lower in Scotland?

lower, but not proportionately lower

Edinburgh vs. SF (~1.8x) :

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

Edinburgh vs. Seattle (~1.3x) :

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?

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Post by hellbanner »

kowdermeister wrote: post #7

You probably want to setup a form for this. You would get much more willingness to share anonymously. Also, which country in EU?

Just not a Google form, lest they know which employees are discussing salaries

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?

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Post by dx034 »

Bahamut wrote: post #42
4k wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Iirc, staff SWE is Google's equivalent of Principal Engineer.

I think Google has principal engineers as well - a staff engineer at Google probably is equivalent to a principal engineer at most companies though.

For someone not working in tech, what is the difference between an engineer and a principal engineer?

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?

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Post by busterarm »

"Senior Fullstack Dev" in NY at a non-tech company.

Currently 100k + 5k (bonuses, i've gotten 20k bonuses here in the past but those days are gone). Roughly 35-40 hrs/week with only two week-long crunch times in about 3 years.

I currently have offers for 135k + worthless equity (startup) and 110k (non tech company). Waiting to hear back about a Systems Engineer role offering in the 100-125k range (hot tech company).

Part of changing gigs at the moment is to plan to take on additional work on the side to increase my compensation. Not possible in my current role.

I started off making 60k as a developer and not even that long ago...proving value added 40k on to my salary quickly, but honestly I negotiated poorly. I left at least 25k on the table starting.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?

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Post by doktrin »

gigatexal wrote: post #55
ApplThwaway100 wrote: post #17

$160k, $105k RSUs over 4 years, $15k signing bonus - started half a year ago, currently have a little more than 5 years of experience as a software engineer.

That package is with what firm?

> ApplThwaway100

Apple, probably

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?

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Post by gadders »

desarun wrote: post #32
LandR wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

If you contract in an Investment Bank in London, those day rates would be on the low side.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?

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Post by dragonwriter »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #12
Viker wrote: post #10

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Why do people feel this way about their salaries. Always seemed to me that in the grand tottal we will be better off if we did discuss our salaries publicly. I make around 60k usd in a Scandinavian startup as a programmer with experience. What is so big deal about it

I can think of a few reasons; probably the same why you shouldn't brag about being rich or winning the lottery. * Avoiding jealousy from people that might know the poster * Avoiding becoming a target for scammers or kidnappers Also why does HN not support basic formatting?

> Also why does HN not support basic formatting?

It does, for a suitable basic definition of “basic” (it supports italics and preformatted monospace code blocks).

I think it's largely an aesthetic preference to focus on text content rather than distracting formatting that results in not supporting more. Aside from a decent formatting option for distinguishing block quotes, I don't really see any more formatting as being desirable, and even that is more to avoid people being tempted into using code blocks for blockquotes than because there aren't tolerable ways to present them without special formatting.

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