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Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

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There is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM recruited in 2014 who earns $7,278,870,000? [1]

How do I get this job? :)

EDIT: The application was withdrawn. That saved them some money.

[1] http://data.jobsintech.io/companies/ibm-corporation/2014?ord...

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

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I would love to be able to query the whole dataset at once, instead of company by company. For example, I'd like to see everything in $city, and then be able to sort that by salary or job description.

It's in the pipeline :)

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nevermind, there's one making $1.5M. I just stopped looking too early.

I understand that highly compensated engineers get to solve unique challenges on grand scale, enjoy their jobs and are generally content with their professional positions. But I just can't stop wishing for those engineers using their immense knowledge, authority and financial resources to bootstrap own tech companies and improve the diversity of the tech ecosystem. They don't need venture backing, they don't have pre…

Pushing back a little bit, not everyone is cut out for the startup lifestyle and the problems they're solving may not be solvable without the scale of a place like Google. Rather than encourage them to get out, I'd love to see them publish more about what they're doing, what challenges they're tackling, and how they've gone about solving them. That information gets pushed into the general ecosystem and other people then can run with it and iterate on it quickly. I.E. Google publishing the big table papers that became HDFS/Hadoop and the entire open source "big data" ecosystem that spawned from that.

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

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Nicely made. It would be helpful to view the information grouped by job title, with summary statistics on salary across all employers, possibly also with standardized numbers that include adjustments for differences in regional cost of living for the various worksite locations (via either BLS numbers or whatever wolfram alpha uses to get equivalent salaries for other cities). It's also a little depressing to see sala…

It's a little exciting to see salaries this high (I'm at a for-profit).

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks this is way better than existing sites. I did notice that searching for Google gives you 5 different entities that are all Google.

Yes I am still cleaning the data. It's all unbelievable the amount of crap you can find in the public records. I have a lot of duplicates unfortunately. Down the road, I'm planning on providing a couple of cool charts/map about trends and evolutions.

For search result of a company name, can you sort the results descending by # of LCA? this would put the most likely true result of top, I think.

I also noticed that the sort buttons (for salary) behave backwards of what I'd intuitively expect?

Would it be possible to auto-merge likely duplicate company names?

Great job, keep it up!! :)

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

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Wow, you aren't kidding when you say Netflix pays well!

Oh my god, $350k for a senior software engineer? I'm absolutely floored.

Compare them to Microsoft for equivalent-sounding positions in CA, interesting...

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

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There's a software engineer at Google making $1.1M. That is all.

Nevermind, there's one making $1.5M. I just stopped looking too early.

Those have a withdrawn status.

http://data.jobsintech.io/companies/google-inc/2012?order_sa...

http://data.jobsintech.io/companies/google-inc/2014?order_sa...

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

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Wow, you aren't kidding when you say Netflix pays well!

Oh my god, $350k for a senior software engineer? I'm absolutely floored.

That's not an unreasonable total compensation level for senior engineers in the bay area.

Remember that Netflix does not typically offer bonuses, stock grants, etc, and just pays people a salary. While most other big tech companies (eg, Google) have salary as 1/2 to 3/4 of your total compensation, with the remainder being bonus and stock grants (or options). So in the Google table here, you will see far lower salaries than Netflix, just because at Netflix, your total comp is almost entirely salary. I suspect that the Google H1B's are getting stock grants and bonuses that will increase their compensation substantially.

I'm not an H1B, but I'm speaking from experience. I'm a senior software engineer at Google, and I'm starting at Netflix in a few weeks. My total comp will be in the same ballpark at Netflix as my current total comp at Google, but will move from salary + bonuses + stock at Google to being almost entirely salary. I'm excited that I might actually be able to do my own taxes in the future.

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