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Is it a case of only people making the most money are more apt to report their earnings?
My thoughts exactly $400K? Could someone being paid this level of money please share your career path.
Amazon keeps asking me to interview and everyone tells me it's a terrible place to work. After seeing this compensation via equity I'm thinking it might be worth it. Anyone work at Amazon and loves it or think it's really worth it?
That said, one of them is the kind of person that I would expect to do really well in an Amazonian environment, and the other now works at Nintendo.
Here is the interactive version, explore and filter data to get more insight - https://tuvalabs.com/jpatel3/datasets/0df9f660770247d4a96313...
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You also have to take into account things like quality of life in the city vs a long commute if living in the suburb.
Right. But a country as a whole is what I am interested in. I mean iphone costs about the same anywhere in the world ( okay it's sometimes more usually not less (Brazil?)) so there's that...
It would be very interesting to include technology workers in non-profit organizations alongside for-profit corps and startups.
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We're not quite there yet with the data we have :). Anecdotally though, it seems like companies in Europe pay less and take out more taxes.
Yep cut the compensation by about 50% and increase the taxation by 50% :)
That tax is buying us stuff.
Is it a case of only people making the most money are more apt to report their earnings?
Why would that be? I suspect that's more because the pool of people I know is biased than because the pool that posted is biased -- some orgs in Microsoft will match offers from other companies even though average compensation is relatively low, so if you're new and you know a lot other people who are new, the sample of people you know is probably biased high.
To be clear, I think that's bad both for Microsoft and for Microsoft employees. I'm just trying to figure why the Microsoft data is anomalous relative to the numbers people have personally told me. The reason it's bad for employees is obvious. The reason it's bad for the company is that it's pretty common for people who have been here a long time to shop around, find out that they can make much more elsewhere, and then get a matching offer from MS. Once word gets around that the best way to get a fair raise is to interview elsewhere, people start interviewing elsewhere, and some of the people who interview are going to leave, even if that wasn't their original intent.
I would be more interested in data that shows how much money an engineer takes back home (net income) compared to the rest of the world. eg Software Engineer from Atlantis earns 100 000 USD but pays 55% of tax so takes home only 45000 Software Engineer from Middle-Earth earns 60 000 USD but pays 10% tax and takes home 54000 etc
We're not quite there yet with the data we have :). Anecdotally though, it seems like companies in Europe pay less and take out more taxes.
Just want to point out that there is a good reason for the higher taxes.
Here is the interactive version, explore and filter data to get more insight - https://tuvalabs.com/jpatel3/datasets/0df9f660770247d4a96313...
Amazon keeps asking me to interview and everyone tells me it's a terrible place to work. After seeing this compensation via equity I'm thinking it might be worth it. Anyone work at Amazon and loves it or think it's really worth it?
"Amazon's vesting schedule is 5%, 15%, 40%, and 40% over the 4 years"
This is a significant deviation from the industry standard, which is to have a one year cliff, and have stock vest month-to-month afterwards. What happens if you leave in the middle of year 3?