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Post by bornfreddy » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 6:20 AM UTC

cercatrova wrote: post #280

kortilla wrote: post #279

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Google L5 in the Bay Area doesn’t pay $200k base. Your friends are either lying to you or you are an exceptional group not representative of standard senior Bay Area FAANG base salaries.

I never said FAANG pays 200k base. Companies who only pay in cash will have their total compensation be 200k. FAANG meanwhile pays a lower base, such as 170k, and the rest is RSUs. While FAANG base is lower, their total compensation is higher than other companies.

Post by rglullis » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 6:25 AM UTC

cercatrova wrote: post #269

rglullis wrote: post #147

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I said that I would pay conditionally on getting the job, not for the help. ;) And it was on purpose. I know that HN is US-centric, but I lived on both sides of the ocean and as time passes I am getting more sensitive to this limited (dare I say privileged ?) view from otherwise very smart and educated people. My proposal was more of a provocation to see if you could really back up the statement that "it should be ea…

> If these salaries are only attainable at FAANG companies They are not. Looking at LinkedIn I see many such salaries for engineers. At your experience level you would be making many hundreds of thousands of dollars in the US, even remotely.

Post by Dayshine » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 6:36 AM UTC

julienb_sea wrote: post #93

Dayshine wrote: post #82

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You realise people work jobs as vital and stressful as that for a quarter of the money right? And that most people in the workforce don't get significant bonuses, and no shares. Software engineering is an absurd bubble.

Tech salaries are a direct result of basic supply/demand. The available supply of workers and the demand for a job are, to a certain extent, independent from how "vital and stressful" the job is. The only bubble that might pop is an America first hiring mindset which constricts the supply. If this were to change I would expect tech salaries in America to go lower. Then again, this is not that hard to do, most large t…

Post by phreack » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 7:51 AM UTC

codegeek wrote: post #25

"I completely underestimated how much work it takes to build a business. There's so much overhead. I'm always figuring out why a build failed, taxes, how to triage issues, responding to support, designing UIs, responding to Apple's complaints, and more. There's so much that goes on behind the scenes. There's no way a single person can possible do this alone, especially as a side project." This is the part that resona…

Post by solatic » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 7:59 AM UTC

la6472 wrote: post #212

codegeek wrote: post #25

"I completely underestimated how much work it takes to build a business. There's so much overhead. I'm always figuring out why a build failed, taxes, how to triage issues, responding to support, designing UIs, responding to Apple's complaints, and more. There's so much that goes on behind the scenes. There's no way a single person can possible do this alone, especially as a side project." This is the part that resona…

810 paid subscribers and he could not secure funding to sustain the business ??