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> You could pick an undergrad, offer them 600k$, and they could take the job, but that won't make them top talent. But that's exactly what is happening. People
by stackbutterflow 5y ago
> You could pick an undergrad, offer them 600k$, and they could take the job, but that won't make them top talent.
But that's exactly what is happening. People are paid these insane salaries because they're either born American or got a green card. Do you think the 20 something hired at $200k+ in the Silicon Valley are worth 5 times the seniors devs at $40k in Thailand, Spain, Poland? The only difference between a 5 digits salary engineer and a 6 digits salary engineer is a green card.
- volta83 5y ago> But that's exactly what is happening. People are paid these insane salaries because they're either born American or got a green card. Not really. Lots of people from everywhere in the World apply to Google for US (and German) positions. Most of them don't get the job. Google has offices everywhere in the world. If they want to hire you, they just hire you in your local country, and after 1 year you can transfer to the US without a green card. > Do you think the 20 something hired at $200k+ in the Silicon Valley are worth 5 times the seniors devs at $40k in Thailand, Spain, Poland? A 20 something hired by Google in Germany also makes 200k$. (160k EUR). For Google, these 20 something programming-competition winners and phds are worth more than most senior devs doing management with no programming, or cruft apps, etc. Not all of these 20 something will end up making 600k at google though. But in Google they have the chance to develop into that.