What are good things that make you outstanding, and get more salary than others?
Ask HN: What factors determine compensation in companies like Facebook?
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Re: Ask HN: What factors determine compensation in companies like Facebook?
#2Specialization is probably the most common way to get significantly higher compensation as a grunt. Make yourself an expert in some hot area of technology. Higher demand and lower supply = higher compensation.
Just imagine being the guy trying to hire a kernel developer vs hiring a PHP developer familiar with Wordpress. You're going to have to pay more, a lot more.
Re: Ask HN: What factors determine compensation in companies like Facebook?
#3Specialization is probably the most common way to get significantly higher compensation as a grunt. Make yourself an expert in some hot area of technology. Higher demand and lower supply = higher compensation. Just imagine being the guy trying to hire a kernel developer vs hiring a PHP developer familiar with Wordpress. You're going to have to pay more, a lot more.
And continually invest some of your time in 1> keeping current (meaning right at the leading edge) of your specialization as well as something else that's emerging, and may replace your specialization, that also interests you and 2> getting the word out. In a specialized domain this doesn't mean you need to have some intense twittersphere / githubsphere presence as the "networking" maketroids claim, it just means that fellow experts in your area should know who you are (not necessarily in person) and respect you.
Re: Ask HN: What factors determine compensation in companies like Facebook?
#4Working at Facebook is what determines compensation at Facebook. Facebook is forced to pay its employees a high salary because they work at Facebook. If they did not, other companies would simply hire all their new employees away within a year of their start date. It doesn't have a whole lot to do with the individual.