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by kzisme 9y ago
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- ryandrake 9y agoLOL, you won't find one, because if true that's got to be an outlier by several standard deviations. Whenever a salary discussion comes up on HN, someone always comes out of the woodwork to let us all know that his brother's niece's room-mate's boyfriend makes $300K+ at BIG_TECH_CO, so therefore that must be what tech companies pay.
- phamilton 9y agoI don't know why people are so adamant about this being an outlier. Yes, not all tech companies pay $300k+ for senior engineers. But Netflix/Google/Facebook do. I don't know why that should be a problem for people. Denying it, and mocking anyone who brings it up, just depresses wages for engineers across the board.
- ryandrake 9y agoPeople are adamant about it because in all cases, those claiming these salaries are common provide no evidence to back up their claims. It's always "I know this guy who..." or "It just is, I'm telling you!" You can argue that glassdoor and other online surveys are self-selecting and suffer from this or that bias, but at least they (presumably) are trying to back their results up with data. Multiple online sites agree that a median & average Senior Software Engineer BASE salary in the Bay area is between $130K and $140K [1] [2]. If you want to say this is wrong, fine, come in with some other actual data rather than just hearsay and doubt casting. If you want to say "but that's just base salary" also fine, but show some total comp data with a sample size greater than N=1. 1: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-senior-software-engineer-salary-SRCH_IL.0,13_IM759_KO14,38.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-senior-soft... 2: http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Senior_Software_Engineer/Salary/11028638/San-Francisco-CA http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Senior_Software_Engi...
- brendangregg 9y agoCan you tell me your companies name, your full name, and share proof of salaries for engineers at your company (merely to settle an argument on HN)? No? That is why it's not commonly shared and proven like you are asking for. Try putting yourself in the other person's shoes.
- pfarnsworth 9y agoTypical HN comment making bullshit assertions without any evidence. Look at the links I posted.
- phamilton 9y agohttps://www.paysa.com/salaries/google--senior-software-engineer https://www.paysa.com/salaries/google--senior-software-engin... https://www.paysa.com/salaries/facebook--senior-software-engineer https://www.paysa.com/salaries/facebook--senior-software-eng... https://www.paysa.com/salaries/netflix--senior-software-engineer https://www.paysa.com/salaries/netflix--senior-software-engi...
- runT1ME 9y agoNetflix has an employee stock purchase program that let's them purchase stock at a discount. Netflix's stock went from 80 to 160 in the last year, so I think it's not too far fetched to assume some of the less risk averse Netflix employees did fantastic in the last couple years.
- matt_wulfeck 9y agoHe's referring to base salary, not including the automatic 5% stock grant.
- pfarnsworth 9y agohttp://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=NETFLIX&job=SENIOR+SOFTWARE+ENGINEER&city=&year=2015 http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=NETFLIX&job=SENIOR+SOFTWARE...