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It says where the data comes from: Glassdoor. Every time someone uses glassdoor to make claims about salaries in the Bay Area, someone else chimes in to say tha
by n4r9 7y ago
It says where the data comes from: Glassdoor. Every time someone uses glassdoor to make claims about salaries in the Bay Area, someone else chimes in to say that they're way lower than their own experience. I wonder if there are two strata of software engineers operating there; a "chump" majority who are on the sort of salaries advertised, and a minority who are much more selective or self-confident and who post a lot on hacker news.
- dan-robertson 7y agoThere are surely a lot of biases in any self-reported salary data. And for firms that pay salary+bonus+equity, it matters a lot how one counts it.
- cjhopman 7y agoIt's not just industry-wide that people say Glassdoor is wrong, it's individual companies. The last I looked at Glassdoor for companies where I knew the pay scales, the averages from Glassdoor were way too low.