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Re: H1B Salaries in the US

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Post by dsdawoao »

yummyfajitas wrote: post #18

Some context/theorizing about Edison, NJ. Edison is a largely Indian town. In particular, it attracts many people who don't want personal exposure to the US or non-Indians - such a lifestyle would be difficult anywhere besides Edison or Jersey City. They are only in the US to earn USD. My theory as to why Edison wages are so low: most of the Edison companies are low end bodyshops - if you need a warm body with J2EE,…

Hahaha So true! as an India Grad student who has lived in New York, I totally agree with you, in fact I hated going in that area. I remember there was some controversy when some magazine author wrote an article about it. I actually agreed with him on nearly all points.

Re: H1B Salaries in the US

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Post by laluser »

dummy3account6 wrote: post #28
georgieporgie wrote: post #6

It must really suck to be a senior software engineer making less than 95k knowing that there are probably some new grads that get an initial offer of more than that. Wait, really? By "some" we're talking "very, very few" right? Surely salaries haven't come that far since when I graduated.

I'm a senior in college, and Google offered me $100K + $30K bonus (on average, could be more or less) + $10K relocation to start.

Yup, seems about right. I didn't apply to Google, but I did get an offer from Amazon at $90k base + $25k bonus and $7500 for relocation.Where was your offer for? Mountain view?

Re: H1B Salaries in the US

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Post by potatolicious »

dmix wrote: post #24
vosper wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have heard from a friend at Zynga that highliy-skilled grads are being hired straight out of college on 100k or slightly more.

Which may be more indicative of the cost of living in the valley rather than a rise in average salaries for grads.

$100K for fresh college grads is par for the course in Seattle too, so it's not just SV.

Re: H1B Salaries in the US

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Post by DEinspanjer »

I don't have my copy of Tableau handy any more (using a Mac now) but I suspect that some of the map visualizations would probably be very interesting for visualizing these salary rates both spatially and maybe temporally depending on if there is trending data.

Take a look at this old (and ugly!) post I did a while back: http://blog.mozilla.com/data/2010/03/06/using-tableau-to-inv...

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Post by ahlatimer »

georgieporgie wrote: post #6

It must really suck to be a senior software engineer making less than 95k knowing that there are probably some new grads that get an initial offer of more than that. Wait, really? By "some" we're talking "very, very few" right? Surely salaries haven't come that far since when I graduated.

As another anecdote, I was offered $115k/yr + $10k relocation from Groupon right out of college (I didn't accept, but that was the highest offer monetarily).

Re: H1B Salaries in the US

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Post by smokinn »

DEinspanjer wrote: post #34

I don't have my copy of Tableau handy any more (using a Mac now) but I suspect that some of the map visualizations would probably be very interesting for visualizing these salary rates both spatially and maybe temporally depending on if there is trending data. Take a look at this old (and ugly!) post I did a while back: http://blog.mozilla.com/data/2010/03/06/using-tableau-to-inv...

I took a quick look at the map view of this data and couldn't really come up with anything compelling to show, although a time series of bubble sizes could definitely be interesting.

Re: H1B Salaries in the US

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Post by dsdawoao »

georgieporgie wrote: post #6

It must really suck to be a senior software engineer making less than 95k knowing that there are probably some new grads that get an initial offer of more than that. Wait, really? By "some" we're talking "very, very few" right? Surely salaries haven't come that far since when I graduated.

Here are some stats for starting salaries of Cornell CS grads http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/resources/career_services...

The Mean salaries are around 85k $ not including the bonus, most get bonus around 10k - 30k depending on the company

Re: H1B Salaries in the US

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Post by justlearning »

yummyfajitas wrote: post #18

Some context/theorizing about Edison, NJ. Edison is a largely Indian town. In particular, it attracts many people who don't want personal exposure to the US or non-Indians - such a lifestyle would be difficult anywhere besides Edison or Jersey City. They are only in the US to earn USD. My theory as to why Edison wages are so low: most of the Edison companies are low end bodyshops - if you need a warm body with J2EE,…

another perspective as someone who frequented edison(indian food - oak tree road!) and lived near by - there's a swarm of small bodyshops, who pay bit more than market rate.My experience is that this "market rate" as per stats is what newcomers get for the first couple of years. (these newcomers are typically not well todo back home.)As these 'new' H1 hires gain market experience, they either negotiate or move on to some other small bodyshop. The big corps like Oracle don't pay as much for similar roles. As the o.p rightly discovered, most commute to NYC (go to edison station at 7.30am). (I don't know if this may have lead few banks to move their dev/it operations to NJ:) ). I know of some companies that didn't pay med insurance for more than 2 years. Few years ago, a top guy of a similar bodyshop was sent to prison for 'buy a green card' scheme he employed using employment immigration loop holes. Every year there are few companies that are in news for the wrong reasons. From what I saw, the non-passionate-just-work-for-pay guy who has worked in the US jumps to start a bodyshop after he has gotten his GC(greencard). It's very lucrative and luring on paper (you get n number of guys working on several clients and you make x over each guy - think 'pimping') I hope it has changed in the recent years.

But this is changing. As more Indians are aware of better opportunities back home (and with the next gen Indian being more affluent than earlier generation), lot of them stay back. It's only the crude who go on and take the bait from the companies.

fwiw, adding to yummyfajitas- it's not only the social separation of state/ethinicity; there's also an abstract eliteness that goes with bank-dev and non-bank - doesn't matter if you are with akamai in piscataway(neighbouring edison). :)

Re: H1B Salaries in the US

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Post by ubasu »

It seems misleading to report one number for New York and separate numbers for San Jose, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Fremont, Palo Alto and Cupertino, for which the combined number comes to 1,167,640,693, which puts the Bay Area in second place, without counting e.g. Berkeley, Livermore, Walnut Creek etc.

Edit: perhaps that way Edison should be lumped together with New York? But the Bay Area should really count as a whole.

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