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The site shows average salary, but it would be nice to see Median salary. In fact, it might be best to split the salaries into different quartiles.
Or get a full histogram!
http://www.salar.ly/salaries/?title=senior+software+engineer...
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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…
The pg essay quote seems to have gone out of fashion here a bit lately, but there's a perfect one for this occasion: > So one way to build great software is to start your own startup. There are two problems with this, though. One is that in a startup you have to do so much besides write software. At Viaweb I considered myself lucky if I got to hack a quarter of the time. And the things I had to do the other three qua…
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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…
I think the problem is even though it sounds like a lot, $1.5m/year is not really some kind of "Tony Stark"-like riches. Yes, they might be able to temporarily stop working and live off savings, but probably not for that long. And furthermore, $1.5m, which is really $750k after taxes, doesnt really pay a lot of salaries. Hard to have an engineering division on $750k. Also, I know plenty of people who are doing exactl…
It's about 5% the first and 95% the second, sadly. The well-connected VCs pretty much know what the outcomes and the valuations are going to be in advance. The less connected ones get burned by adverse selection and lose money.
So a bootstrapped startup cannot ignore the VC realm regardless, especially once it is time to come to market.
That I'm not as sure about. You just have to bootstrap into something that VCs aren't likely to be interested in, and get enough of an early lead and enough good will that they can't just make a competitor out of nothing should their interests change. It's quite possible, as far as I've seen. Bootstrapping is far harder than it should be (in part, because the American middle class is dying and no one has any fucking money) but I don't think that the VCs are the cause of that.
Wow, immigrants have no privacy in this country. Imagine, if US citizen salaries were made public like this. How would that make you feel?
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Really not that much when you take out the taxes, food and housing premium of the area. That is what should floor you as well
Monthly Gross Pay $29,166.67 Federal Withholding $8,195.61 Social Security $1,808.33 Medicare $422.92 California $2,831.70 SDI $262.50 Net Monthly Pay $15,645.61
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...
http://data.jobsintech.io/companies/massachusetts-institute-...
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This needs to be transparent like it or not. These companies are arguing that there isn't any talent for them to hire so they have to get someone from overseas. If this information wasn't publicly available they would be paying some of these guys 9 dollars an hour.
That is senseless, you dont need citizen control to check that the salaries are prevailing wages, that is a job that can be done by the government with multiple different agencies at a very low level of cost or risk. Also, it doesnt make sense because it doesnt include US employees salary of the same companies which is what you need to make that fair/unfair comparison. Even worse, the immigrants themselves can't make…
No it's not. The records in question aren't public because they involve foreign workers. They are public because the records involve a program run by the government.
Some really strange application from IBM :P H-1B Senior Software Engineer $7,278,870,000 Year $63,294 Philadelphia, PA Unknown 1 Withdrawn 15-1131