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Paychecks Exposed: Google, Apple, Facebook and More

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Re: Paychecks Exposed: Google, Apple, Facebook and More

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Missing from the list are Microsoft and Amazon. I wonder how they compare?

The data is from glassdoor.com. Here are the salary pages for Amazon and Microsoft:

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Amazon-com-Salaries-E6036.ht...

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Microsoft-Salaries-E1651.htm

Re: Paychecks Exposed: Google, Apple, Facebook and More

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post #5

Is Facebook rated higher because it is the new cool kid in the neighborhood or because it is doing something different? After all, Google was considered the best place to work less than 5 years ago.

Why would being "the new cool kid" affect job satisfaction ratings by employees? Unless you're suggesting they are more satisfied due to the coolness of the idea of working there.

Re: Paychecks Exposed: Google, Apple, Facebook and More

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post #5

Is Facebook rated higher because it is the new cool kid in the neighborhood or because it is doing something different? After all, Google was considered the best place to work less than 5 years ago.

Maybe the difference of age as well ? If I had to do some basic data analysis, age + family would be the first two explanatory variables I would look at. But without data, that's as clueless as anyone's else guess of course.

Re: Paychecks Exposed: Google, Apple, Facebook and More

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Facebook seems to offer the most salary/compensation.

More interestingly, Facebook is one of only two companies (among 10) where the company rating is higher than the compensation rating.

Google gets 3.9 for company rating and also 3.9 for compensation rating (both are good). Facebook gets 4.3 for compensation rating. It gets an even higher score 4.6 for company rating (and that makes it the only company where Glassdoor describes the employees as "very satisfied")

It will be interesting to find out what Facebook is doing right and why other companies aren't able to match it.

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