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Re: My offer numbers from big companies

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Post by teekert »

simonbarker87 wrote: post #4

I live in the UK, to me these numbers are insane. How are these salaries at that work experience possible? Is the pay increase from then on slow? Are these salaries sustainable for the industry long term? I know experienced professionals who would be considered successful in the UK who finish their careers nowhere near this level of salary (not programmers but certainly engineers). I’m astounded.

The numbers are meaningless without knowing the cost of living. Here in the Netherlands I also make a lot less (Ph.D. working in bioinformatics) and probably pay a lot more taxes. But my mortgage is my only dept and if I get cancer I can stop working for the treatment and have no other worries than the actual cancer. When I lose my job I can still pay for my house and food and school for both kids. University is about 2000 euros a year here. There are more things than net salary.

Re: My offer numbers from big companies

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Post by thisisit »

> 2. What's your background?

> Male. Two years of professional experience. Bachelors. Non-ivy league school. Previously from a unicorn startup. I'm mentioning these because people ask, not that I think they matter.

Being an alumni from unicorn startup is my guess on why he got these offers.

People are obsessed with salaries and positions which I think is unhealthy. But what I find ironic is that I have always heard the rich talk about how money can't buy happiness or how you should take risks from people who have some kind of backing - monetary/family or like here how background doesn't matter, even with evidence like unicorn or referrals.

Edited for some clarity.

Re: My offer numbers from big companies

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Post by hux_ »

simonbarker87 wrote: post #4

I live in the UK, to me these numbers are insane. How are these salaries at that work experience possible? Is the pay increase from then on slow? Are these salaries sustainable for the industry long term? I know experienced professionals who would be considered successful in the UK who finish their careers nowhere near this level of salary (not programmers but certainly engineers). I’m astounded.

Well programmed high end robots are a scarce commodity.

The reason Facebook needs 5000 robots to run/take care of the data of 1.5 billion people while the Indian or Chinese govt need about 2 million robots says all there needs to be said about the quality of the robot.

Re: My offer numbers from big companies

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Post by King-Aaron »

wwalser wrote: post #30
King-Aaron wrote: post #5

Jesus christ, $50k as a sign on bonus. I haven't seen anything like that in Aus for that sort of experience.

If you have the flexibility, most of the companies on this list recruit regularly in Australia for roles in the US. You may need to fly state-side of an on-site but the initial round can be done in Melbourne or Sydney. Tech companies love E3 visas.

I may look into this, I'm in need of a change of scenery

Re: My offer numbers from big companies

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Post by wwalser »

mathgladiator wrote: post #27
curiousgal wrote: post #10

> Thankfully I had FB and Google referrals else I doubt I would have gotten a reply at all.

This is one of the things that really sucks about the industry. It is a new "boy's club", and if you know people in the club then the barrier to entry is easier (if you can code at a reasonable capacity).

The entry fee for a referral is striking up a single conversation at a conference. If someone from a big tech company is speaking at a conference, the fact that they are speaking isn't the primary reason for being present. They are there to recruit.

Re: My offer numbers from big companies

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Post by hpaavola »

jstanley wrote: post #26
hpaavola wrote: post #22

10 years ago I was working for VMware in Palo Alto as an intern and my salary was $5.5k per month. They offered me a permanent position for $75k per year, but I decided to move back to Finland. I would say that those numbers in the article sound believable. Housing costs in the bay area are crazy.

Housing costs shouldn't really factor into what the company is willing to pay staff though. It costs the company the same amount regardless of how much it costs the employee to live.

Sure, I agree. One just needs to remember that when living in the bay area sizable chunk of that money goes to housing.

Re: My offer numbers from big companies

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Post by jstanley »

I just get a 403 page instead of an article, probably because I browse via a DigitalOcean IP address.

If this is enough to get me blocked, that's hilarious given that this company's product is supposed to be "anonymous work talk" - if they like anonymity so much why am I not allowed to browse from whatever IP address I like?

EDIT: And furthermore, all it takes to find out if a company uses Blind is to type in the company name and see what it says. That's a pretty blatant privacy leak right on the company's home page.

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