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Re: Searchable and sortable H1B salary database

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Post by 8ytecoder »

darth_avocado wrote: post #53
herr_antwort wrote: post #7

ok, citadel, totally believable salaries here. is this a typo? theres a zero missing. Quantitative Research Lead CITADEL SECURITIES AMERICAS SERVICES LLC US$55058.00 US$55058.00 1 Quantitative Researcher Citadel Securities Americas LLC US$67288.00 US$67288.00 1 Quantitative Researcher Citadel Securities Americas Services LLC US$67288.00 US$67288.00 1

There is an important caveat here. H1B filings only includes guaranteed compensation, which is your base salary. Stocks and bonuses are not included here. That’s why you’ll see data points like Meta paying 200k for a VP level H1B. I reality they are absolutely not underpaying H1Bs at VP level and the person is printing millions a year.

Not even guaranteed compensation - that column is prevailing wages - avg market salary. Not what they’re paid. That’s the minimum they need to paid.

Re: Searchable and sortable H1B salary database

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Post by lopkeny12ko »

thebigwinning wrote: post #56
eric-hu wrote: post #55

> Linux Kernel Software Engineer BYTEDANCE INC. What would ByteDance (TikTok parent company) need with a Linux kernel engineer?

Speculation - power and performance tweaking - drivers for custom or unusual hardware (video/audio?) - security analysis - integration of software with Linux

This doesn't answer the parent commenter's question. There is no scenario that any of these would be needed for a social media app.

Re: Searchable and sortable H1B salary database

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Post by lopkeny12ko »

euiq wrote: post #23
flakeoil wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's just one position, not an average. There are other positions with the same title with higher salaries. Quantitative Research can be anything, basically just an Excel inputer could be called that. I think salary expectations on HN, in tech and in the US are a bit off. Do you really believe someone crunching numbers is worth USD 600000 per year?

Quantitative Research as Citadel Securities is a set of specific, highly-paid, jobs.

"Quantitative research" can mean basically anything.

Re: Searchable and sortable H1B salary database

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Post by DerSaidin »

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #62
thebigwinning wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speculation - power and performance tweaking - drivers for custom or unusual hardware (video/audio?) - security analysis - integration of software with Linux

This doesn't answer the parent commenter's question. There is no scenario that any of these would be needed for a social media app .

For the app, no.

Server side, at a big enough scale, it might make sense for optimization, tuning, measuring, resolving weird bugs, etc.

Re: Searchable and sortable H1B salary database

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Post by thebigwinning »

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #62
thebigwinning wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speculation - power and performance tweaking - drivers for custom or unusual hardware (video/audio?) - security analysis - integration of software with Linux

This doesn't answer the parent commenter's question. There is no scenario that any of these would be needed for a social media app .

The technical beast is the internet infrastructure. The phone client is nothing.

Re: Searchable and sortable H1B salary database

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Post by lisasays »

diebeforei485 wrote: post #44
achow wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah weird PRODUCT MANAGEMENT VP | META PLATFORMS, INC. | $248768.00

Good tech companies pay employees higher than what is listed in the filing, they just don't want to divulge how much they're paying in public records. This is totally fine, there is nothing illegal about paying more. Mediocre companies (or good startups who aren't considering this stuff too deeply) file with the exact salary. Scam companies pay below what they filed (illegal).

So they're submitting false filings, you say? You know this how?

Re: Searchable and sortable H1B salary database

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Post by govg »

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #63
euiq wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quantitative Research as Citadel Securities is a set of specific, highly-paid, jobs.

"Quantitative research" can mean basically anything.

In the industry, especially at a firm like citadel, it usually means a specific set of roles. It would be like "software architect" at a tech firm, the exact work might vary but by and large every software engineer is expected to have similar skills.

Re: Searchable and sortable H1B salary database

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Post by eating555 »

eric-hu wrote: post #55

> Linux Kernel Software Engineer BYTEDANCE INC. What would ByteDance (TikTok parent company) need with a Linux kernel engineer?

BYTEDANCE submitted a patch few months ago to reduce the system reboot time for a few milliseconds. That means a lot for rebooting their hundreds of thousands of VMs.

Re: Searchable and sortable H1B salary database

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Post by nkrisc »

throwaway2990 wrote: post #36
nkrisc wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What values could reasonably be both an annual salary and an hourly wage in the US, where this data is from? While of course mixing annual and hourly is bad practice and makes sorting pretty useless, it shouldn’t be difficult to distinguish the two if one is so inclined. I imagine there’s a very clear gap in that sorted sequence where the hourly values transition to annual. Take 20,000. As an annual salary you’d be l…

If I sort. Atleast on mobile. How do I figure out the lowest annual salary? I can’t. I don’t understand how anyone can defend this data. Either collect and provide good data or don’t bother at all.

I’m not defending the data. I’m pointing out that it could be processed without much difficulty to clean it up, if so desired.
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