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Salary Stream – Software Engineer Offers

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Re: Salary Stream – Software Engineer Offers

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Post by fg6hr »

_bxg1 wrote: post #2

Interesting info and interesting website. Do they pay a small fee for each W2? Otherwise I don't see the motivation to go through that whole process

For someone making $400k, a whatever fee they have to offer wouldn't be worth 15 minutes of time. And the idea of uploading such a personal document as W-2 seems laughable. The more believable option is the informal offer letter with numbers: that could be shared, indeed.

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Post by _bxg1 »

fg6hr wrote: post #3
_bxg1 wrote: post #2

Interesting info and interesting website. Do they pay a small fee for each W2? Otherwise I don't see the motivation to go through that whole process

For someone making $400k, a whatever fee they have to offer wouldn't be worth 15 minutes of time. And the idea of uploading such a personal document as W-2 seems laughable. The more believable option is the informal offer letter with numbers: that could be shared, indeed.

> What is Salary Stream? A digest of verified salaries sent weekly. Users upload Offer Letters, W2s, etc. We extract the relevant numbers and the share the anonymous data back with you.

The whole point is that they verify them. In contrast with, say, Glassdoor. Which is why even a singular data point can be treated as meaningful.

> For someone making $400k, a whatever fee they have to offer wouldn't be worth 15 minutes of time

I mean, sort of. I don't see that as a reason nobody would do it.

Re: Salary Stream – Software Engineer Offers

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Post by gumby »

fg6hr wrote: post #3
_bxg1 wrote: post #2

Interesting info and interesting website. Do they pay a small fee for each W2? Otherwise I don't see the motivation to go through that whole process

For someone making $400k, a whatever fee they have to offer wouldn't be worth 15 minutes of time. And the idea of uploading such a personal document as W-2 seems laughable. The more believable option is the informal offer letter with numbers: that could be shared, indeed.

> For someone making $400k, a whatever fee they have to offer wouldn't be worth 15 minutes of time.

It's worth it if you can pull up the median, improving the chances of getting a better offer down the road.

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