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Re: Engineers Salary Data

#11

Post by nick_ »

pesfandiar wrote: post #8

> All US companies hire in Canada for roughly equal pay (after tax) if not more. It couldn't be more wrong. Even without considering the ~3/4 exchange rate or the lower income tax, the dollar value is a good 10-50% higher in the states. Source: I live in Vancouver and have many friends working 200 km to the South in Seattle.

I came here to say the same thing. I've been looking at moving to the US specifically to make more money. My gathered information showed me that the same job in the US pays at least 50% more (corrected for the different currencies).

Re: Engineers Salary Data

#12

Post by throwaway713 »

bussierem wrote: post #7
kevlar1818 wrote: post #4

> Starting salaries for fresh software engineering graduates is now $130K-160K. For the best ones its ~$180K. If you are doing a major in anything except CS you are a * I'm becoming convinced that this post is satire.

Logged in for the first time in a while to bring this up too. The moment I got to this part I just closed the tab. Doesn't matter how correct or incorrect this information is. The person posting this on Quora either succeeded in Poe's Law or is a complete a * themselves. This entire post just reeks of "if you're not a STEM graduate, specifically CS, you might as well just not exist, go do something useful"

I did not write the blog post but I did post it to HN. The reason is because I recently just accepted a position as data scientist fresh out of college and my salary is WAY WAY lower than those mentioned in this post. I was wondering if I got ripped off or not, and I figured the fastest way to determine whether these salaries were genuine was to post this here.

Re: Engineers Salary Data

#13

Post by bcherny »

kevlar1818 wrote: post #4

> Starting salaries for fresh software engineering graduates is now $130K-160K. For the best ones its ~$180K. If you are doing a major in anything except CS you are a * I'm becoming convinced that this post is satire.

From what I've seen, this is accurate for medium-big tech companies in the Bay Area. Unlikely to be as high outside of the Bay.

Re: Engineers Salary Data

#14

Post by freyir »

Numbers are higher than I've heard anywhere else. The guy apparently spent time at Microsoft, Google, and Groupon (he joined right before it collapsed), so he should know what he's talking about. Or he's trying to make a name for himself.

Re: Engineers Salary Data

#16

Post by bussierem »

throwaway713 wrote: post #12
bussierem wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Logged in for the first time in a while to bring this up too. The moment I got to this part I just closed the tab. Doesn't matter how correct or incorrect this information is. The person posting this on Quora either succeeded in Poe's Law or is a complete a * themselves. This entire post just reeks of "if you're not a STEM graduate, specifically CS, you might as well just not exist, go do something useful"

I did not write the blog post but I did post it to HN. The reason is because I recently just accepted a position as data scientist fresh out of college and my salary is WAY WAY lower than those mentioned in this post. I was wondering if I got ripped off or not, and I figured the fastest way to determine whether these salaries were genuine was to post this here.

Apologies. By "posting this", I meant the person posting to Quora, not you. I have edited my above response to clarify.

Re: Engineers Salary Data

#17

Post by mrg3_2013 »

jeandejean wrote: post #9
mrg3_2013 wrote: post #6

Is this for real ? He probably caught the low tail of the distribution and is claiming to be the average.

Throwing out loud numbers without any evidence or source… Just look like an annoyingly fruitful attempt to gather views on Quora to me. Maybe it is satire as some suggest, but still annoying!

Someone downvote this thread already! Yeah, it's a satire as proven by "UPDATE: I get lot of immigration related questions from Pakistan and Bangladesh. I think your best immigration option is CHINA. Thank you!"

Re: Engineers Salary Data

#18

Post by stale2002 »

throwaway713 wrote: post #12
bussierem wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Logged in for the first time in a while to bring this up too. The moment I got to this part I just closed the tab. Doesn't matter how correct or incorrect this information is. The person posting this on Quora either succeeded in Poe's Law or is a complete a * themselves. This entire post just reeks of "if you're not a STEM graduate, specifically CS, you might as well just not exist, go do something useful"

I did not write the blog post but I did post it to HN. The reason is because I recently just accepted a position as data scientist fresh out of college and my salary is WAY WAY lower than those mentioned in this post. I was wondering if I got ripped off or not, and I figured the fastest way to determine whether these salaries were genuine was to post this here.

So, it is complicated.

If you graduated from a top 3 CS school, in the top 10 percent of your class, and you are going to go work for a top company like Google, FB, Uber, AND you are good at negotiating, then yes, these numbers are accurate.

If you are not in that top percent in ALL of these categories, these numbers are not even close to accurate.

Re: Engineers Salary Data

#19

Post by divbit »

nick_ wrote: post #11
pesfandiar wrote: post #8

> All US companies hire in Canada for roughly equal pay (after tax) if not more. It couldn't be more wrong. Even without considering the ~3/4 exchange rate or the lower income tax, the dollar value is a good 10-50% higher in the states. Source: I live in Vancouver and have many friends working 200 km to the South in Seattle.

I came here to say the same thing. I've been looking at moving to the US specifically to make more money. My gathered information showed me that the same job in the US pays at least 50% more (corrected for the different currencies).

Just hope you don't need to go to the hospital!

Re: Engineers Salary Data

#20

Post by jaclaz »

mrg3_2013 wrote: post #17
jeandejean wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Throwing out loud numbers without any evidence or source… Just look like an annoyingly fruitful attempt to gather views on Quora to me. Maybe it is satire as some suggest, but still annoying!

Someone downvote this thread already! Yeah, it's a satire as proven by "UPDATE: I get lot of immigration related questions from Pakistan and Bangladesh. I think your best immigration option is CHINA. Thank you!"

Well, he is a prolific satire Author then, compare with:

https://careeradvise.quora.com/Best-Ways-to-Save-Money-in-US...

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-most-of-the-top-JEE-rankers-AIR...?

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