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> Starting salaries for fresh software engineering graduates is now $130K-160K. For the best ones its ~$180K. If you are doing a major in anything except CS you
by kevlar1818 10y ago
> Starting salaries for fresh software engineering graduates is now $130K-160K. For the best ones its ~$180K. If you are doing a major in anything except CS you are a *
I'm becoming convinced that this post is satire.
- bussierem 10y agoLogged in for the first time in a while to bring this up too. The moment I got to this part I just closed the tab. Doesn't matter how correct or incorrect this information is. The person posting this on Quora either succeeded in Poe's Law or is a complete a* themselves. This entire post just reeks of "if you're not a STEM graduate, specifically CS, you might as well just not exist, go do something useful"
- throwaway713 10y agoI did not write the blog post but I did post it to HN. The reason is because I recently just accepted a position as data scientist fresh out of college and my salary is WAY WAY lower than those mentioned in this post. I was wondering if I got ripped off or not, and I figured the fastest way to determine whether these salaries were genuine was to post this here.
- bussierem 10y agoApologies. By "posting this", I meant the person posting to Quora, not you. I have edited my above response to clarify.
- stale2002 10y agoSo, it is complicated. If you graduated from a top 3 CS school, in the top 10 percent of your class, and you are going to go work for a top company like Google, FB, Uber, AND you are good at negotiating, then yes, these numbers are accurate. If you are not in that top percent in ALL of these categories, these numbers are not even close to accurate.
- bcherny 10y agoFrom what I've seen, this is accurate for medium-big tech companies in the Bay Area. Unlikely to be as high outside of the Bay.
- nunez 10y agoNot satire; they are including stock comp