5 ms·
Many companies in the bay area pay 25% more than prevailing- it's called "the bay area tax".
by dekhn 3y ago
Many companies in the bay area pay 25% more than prevailing- it's called "the bay area tax".
- paxys 3y agoWe are talking about the bay area. No one – IBM, Cisco, Apple, Oracle, HP, Novell, Intel, Motorola, 3Com, Yahoo or any of the other big industry players that employed software engineers – paid anywhere near the salary and benefits of Google.
- dekhn 3y agoWhen I chose to return to Genentech I had an offer from Apple and it certainly met or exceeeded everything in my previous Google offers. This is consistent with my read on other employers like Facebook and Microsoft.