How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers
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How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers
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Re: How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers
#2So while this is bad... I don't know how to feel about this.
The other side of the coin is that these companies pay WAY ABOVE average salaries. I'm intimately familiar with this having
FAANG companies average of 50% more compensation than average. Especially outside of the bay area.
Typical range TC Sr. SDE in nyc: 150-250k + Bonus. Typical range TC for Sr. SDE in nyc: for Google/Facebook/Amazon 300-400k ( and goes higher ).
Only the most well paid Quants working in horrible environments made 500k+ There's a good portion >E5 engineers at these companies making well over that.
Anti-competition is bad.. but they are at the top of the industry on compensation. :( So again, don't know how to feel about this.
Re: How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers
#3So while this is bad... I don't know how to feel about this. The other side of the coin is that these companies pay WAY ABOVE average salaries. I'm intimately familiar with this having FAANG companies average of 50% more compensation than average. Especially outside of the bay area. Typical range TC Sr. SDE in nyc: 150-250k + Bonus. Typical range TC for Sr. SDE in nyc: for Google/Facebook/Amazon 300-400k ( and goes h…
Who gets to judge how much an engineer is worth to a company making billion upon billions of dollars a year? If some of these engineers are what is enabling these companies and their executives to make millions then maybe they really are worth a 1 million dollar salary.
Re: How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers
#4One of the things that made my mind explode was that this was blatantly recommended in The Hard Thing About Hard Things. Horowitz argues that your relationship with your business partner is worth more than the employee and you shouldn’t entertain solicitations for employment.
Re: How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers
#5So while this is bad... I don't know how to feel about this. The other side of the coin is that these companies pay WAY ABOVE average salaries. I'm intimately familiar with this having FAANG companies average of 50% more compensation than average. Especially outside of the bay area. Typical range TC Sr. SDE in nyc: 150-250k + Bonus. Typical range TC for Sr. SDE in nyc: for Google/Facebook/Amazon 300-400k ( and goes h…
Who gets to judge how much an engineer is worth to a company making billion upon billions of dollars a year? If some of these engineers are what is enabling these companies and their executives to make millions then maybe they really are worth a 1 million dollar salary.
Also, this happened many years ago. Wages have soared since this was uncovered. Now (actually 4hrs ago, the last I checked) a college hire’s signing bonus is 2/3 my base salary was 6yrs earlier.
Re: How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers
#6So while this is bad... I don't know how to feel about this. The other side of the coin is that these companies pay WAY ABOVE average salaries. I'm intimately familiar with this having FAANG companies average of 50% more compensation than average. Especially outside of the bay area. Typical range TC Sr. SDE in nyc: 150-250k + Bonus. Typical range TC for Sr. SDE in nyc: for Google/Facebook/Amazon 300-400k ( and goes h…
This argument is very weak IMO. Paraphrased “I got paid happily, industry collusion to suppress wages is therefore OK”
Re: How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers
#7One of the things that made my mind explode was that this was blatantly recommended in The Hard Thing About Hard Things. Horowitz argues that your relationship with your business partner is worth more than the employee and you shouldn’t entertain solicitations for employment.
I mean, at least he kept it real.
Re: How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers
#8I don't know how this is still a super secret unknown to the public at large. This has been reported for years. What am I missing?
Re: How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers
#9So while this is bad... I don't know how to feel about this. The other side of the coin is that these companies pay WAY ABOVE average salaries. I'm intimately familiar with this having FAANG companies average of 50% more compensation than average. Especially outside of the bay area. Typical range TC Sr. SDE in nyc: 150-250k + Bonus. Typical range TC for Sr. SDE in nyc: for Google/Facebook/Amazon 300-400k ( and goes h…
Who gets to judge how much an engineer is worth to a company making billion upon billions of dollars a year? If some of these engineers are what is enabling these companies and their executives to make millions then maybe they really are worth a 1 million dollar salary.
Sure, but the ones who aren't doing that are also getting paid really well.
In your scheme they would not :)
Re: How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers
#10So while this is bad... I don't know how to feel about this. The other side of the coin is that these companies pay WAY ABOVE average salaries. I'm intimately familiar with this having FAANG companies average of 50% more compensation than average. Especially outside of the bay area. Typical range TC Sr. SDE in nyc: 150-250k + Bonus. Typical range TC for Sr. SDE in nyc: for Google/Facebook/Amazon 300-400k ( and goes h…
Yeah, until you compare how much they spend on wages to their market cap, which is just insanely low relative to most other industries.