> OTOH, there is the separate issue of FAANGs not compensating their European workers as well as they do the ones working in the US. They don't, but they do co

> OTOH, there is the separate issue of FAANGs not compensating their European workers as well as they do the ones working in the US. They don't, but they do compensate them similarly relative to the local average pay. They pay what they need to to get the talent they want. I work at Google Munich, the pay here is much higher than a regular company in Munich, similarly to how Google pays much more than a regular company in the US. In some ways the difference is even more striking here, because there are few peer companies here that pay similarly to Google (there's a Lyft office, and a small number of Amazon devs, that's about it AFAIK), whereas in major tech hubs in the US you usually also have Facebook and Apple and Amazon and Microsoft and Netflix and various others that are similar or close.