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> In Europe, you go, where? Same place? All of FAANG and beyond has offices in Europe.
by volta83 5y ago
> In Europe, you go, where?
Same place? All of FAANG and beyond has offices in Europe.
- EugeneOZ 5y agowith lower salaries, and they are trying to justify it by the “lower cost of living”, which is not actually lower. The only the exception is Switzerland - FAANG salaries here aren't lower, because this country has so legendary cost of living ;)
- rgrmrts 5y agoBased on reported data from levels.fyi, senior SWE salaries in the US go up to $600k whereas in Switzerland they max out at around $400k. If looking at averages, there’s about a $50k difference.
- volta83 5y agoThere might be more data for levels.fyi in the US than EU. 600k$ is 480k EUR. I know SEs in Germany doing more than 400k EUR at FAANG.
- rgrmrts 5y agoI wondered about reporting biases, which makes sense - I suppose levels.fyi is more popular in the US. Thanks for sharing that data!
- playing_colours 5y agoThat is a lot for Germany, can I ask what companies are they work at specifically?
- volta83 5y agoFAANG
- polotics 5y agoThe US has higher cost of living if you factor in the many externalities like lack of usable public transit, mass shootings, the opioid epidemic on the streets, and many other US disasters impacting the cost of getting an equivalent quality of life.
- burntoutfire 5y agoI'm guessing the size of their presence in Europe in total is way way smaller than in SV alone (not to mention entire US).