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I can't speak to SF, but NYC's big employers aren't just FAANG -- the big financials employ tens of thousands of software developers. Publishers employ thousan
by hapless 8y ago
I can't speak to SF, but NYC's big employers aren't just FAANG -- the big financials employ tens of thousands of software developers. Publishers employ thousands more.
Compensation is, broadly, very generous. They're competing with three of the FAANGs, after all.
- vonmoltke 8y agoCitation sorely needed. Goldman only raised new grad SWE salaries over $100k in the past year or so. They are currently barely above that. The other banks are the same. The only financial firms that compete with FAANG salaries either don't hire juniors or are even harder to get in to than the FAANGs. As for publishers, please find me one that routinely pays anywhere near FAANG salaries. EDIT: changed "SWE software engineers" to "SWE salaries". Oof.
- coredog64 8y agoWhat kind of bonuses does GS pay, and how much of it is really performance related vs. showing up every day on time? (Serious question, not snark).
- vonmoltke 8y agoI don't know, unfortunately.
- corporateguy5 8y agoI’ve seen Goldman pay up to 350k for senior engineers. Probably more. These days that mostly in big data