Everyone needs to quit complaining about the sample size and the like and bringing up things like Glassdoor and just answer the prompt. The lack of transparency in salaries keeps us all at a disadvantage
Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?
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Re: Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
£90k for a dev job isn't that low, even in London. Unless it's very senior, you'll be paid more than in most other sectors (probably same as in finance).
Re: Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?
#63SWE II [1], Google Cambridge, MA. I was hired in 2016 with a little under 2 years of professional experience, with total compensation of about $150k and a roughly 75/25 cash/equity split. The equity has risen in value significantly, the cash only slightly.
[1]: I believe this is a relatively normal entry point for people either just out of school or with 1-2 years experience.
Re: Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?
#64Glassdoor 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.
I had a bad experience with glassdoor.
I wrote about my bad experience at one of the company I interned for. Some PR from the company comment on my review, I knew the PR guy cuz he goes around doing it to other reviews there and create fake reviews.
Anyway, I call him out on it said he's using ad hominem for one of his tactic in the comment. Other users comment and back my report up.
After a few week glassdoor deleted my comment and the comments that back me up, they left the PR guy comment up. I wish I could have screen shot it.
Eventually they did away with the comment system.
I don't trust them at all.
There are aggregate surveys from O'Reily and stackoverflow. I think it's pretty decent. O'Reily doesn't give raw data for their data science survey so I couldn't do any survey analysis to confirm it but they release their linear regression model.
Re: Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?
#65Earlier 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?
The cost of living where I live in Scotland is pretty small (IMO).
I make around £40k as a developer with 11 years experience, which seems about average for my city.
My total cost of living each month is around £930. That includes my mortgage.
The company where I was working before I made ~£29k as developer, some people in that company were on as low as £21k. The average was probably around £25k.
Contracting rates can be good, I regularly get calls about contracting jobs from recruiters with rates around £400-£450 a day for a 6 month contract. But then you have the hassle of looking for a new contract every 6 months or so. That hassle is just not worth it for me.
I get emails each day from a job place with jobs. Today the jobs are
C# .net developer - £30k - £45k
C# software developer - £28k - £35k
Senior python developer - £65k
PHP Developer - £35k - £42k
.NET Developer -£38,000 DOE
.NET full stack developer - £35 - £50k
Java Developer - Upto £65k
Javascript Developer - £30-£40k
These are all for positions with many years experience. I don't know where people are seeing £100k a year salaries?
Re: Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?
#66Only 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…
Others here would be in far better position to advice you, but from what I can say, having an awesome github portfolio will go a long way to compensate for the other handicaps you mentioned. Once you are there, I'd say the best way would be to find someone in your network who works at google, and get referred. If you don't know anyone, make contacts through various channels.
> , having an awesome github portfolio will go a long way to compensate for the other handicaps you mentioned.
Is this you personal experience?
I know for a fact that almost no one I interviewed with bothered to look at github. Some even admitted that asking for github is just a formality and that they don't have time or resources to evaluate it objectively.
Re: Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?
#67What people generally forget about comparing salaries between US and EU is that even though salaries are advertised in gross in Europe you _will_ get paid nett, after taxes while in the US you won't. Once you deduct the "luxuries" you get with the EU tax from an american salary and consider living costs, you will see that there is really not that much of a difference if any. People don't compare like to like.
Re: Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?
#68SWE II [1], Google Cambridge, MA. I was hired in 2016 with a little under 2 years of professional experience, with total compensation of about $150k and a roughly 75/25 cash/equity split. The equity has risen in value significantly, the cash only slightly. [1]: I believe this is a relatively normal entry point for people either just out of school or with 1-2 years experience.
Do you mind if I ask where you went to school? I would very much like to work in Cambridge but my experience with interviewing in Camberville is that I end up talking to people from MIT and similar schools. Or I don’t even get an email back. Which makes me feel like I just don’t have the credentials. Do you just have an undergrad or do you have another degree?
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 make around 60k usd in a Scandinavian startup as a programmer with experience I'm still trying to wrap my head around why European developers earn significantly less than virtually all their American counterparts, even in high cost of living areas (like Scandinavia) I do understand you specified you work for a startup, but even at one of the many established regional consultancies dev salaries tend to cap out at…
It's not universal. My friend started off his career in Denmark making pretty standard US tech salaries.
The tax rates are much higher there too.
Re: Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?
#70Denver, CO and not any of the big companies mentioned in the title.
34 years old, approx 7 years experience. MS stack.
$125k plus annual bonus of approx $9-10k. 2019 hoping annual salary pushes the $135k mark.