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Something that always struck me as funny is that HW roles at FAANGs/Silicon Valley in general are paid worse than software roles. It makes sense in that softwa
by high_derivative 6y ago
Something that always struck me as funny is that HW roles at FAANGs/Silicon Valley in general are paid worse than software roles.
It makes sense in that software is more profitable, but a lot of employers who do this (big techs) are not really cash strapped or sensitive for cost.
It is so much much harder to find great HW compiler engineers with deep toolchain knowledge than another leetcode SWE. Seems a serious blindspot.
- RavlaAlvar 6y agoSame in China, people working in internet giant like Alibaba and tencent earn 3 times the salary more than people working in HW.
- dogma1138 6y agoIt's not just about profitability but rather about how many players are out there. Fewer players, fewer customers and much lower barrier to entry means more mobility which means employees have the ability to demand more. Hardware also requires more experience and if we are honest more education to get into, there is some weird state of fields which on one hand require so much to enter but on the other pay quite below what one would expect and hardware design is just one of them.