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See above, the biggest tech companies are competing for talent globally so they match offers with a discounting factor of 40-30 %, if you're a good candidate. S

See above, the biggest tech companies are competing for talent globally so they match offers with a discounting factor of 40-30 %, if you're a good candidate. Sure if the US is your thing I guess it makes sense to live there, for me quality of life in western Europe seems just way better, probably just because I'm used to the way things are here (walkable, safe cities, great public transportation, dozens of beautiful destinations within 4-8 hour driving or 2-3 hour flight duration, great food quality, ...). Also family ties and friends, seems not great to permanently move halfway across the world without good reason. I've spent significant time in the US and I enjoy it, just wouldn't want to live there permanently even if earning twice as much. Money isn't everything, at least for me. Everyone's different.

YetAnotherNick 3y ago
Sure if Europe is your thing, you should live there. Just don't make specific claims which are not true. Europeans earn lower than 40% for the senior positions. e.g see google salaries[1]. Google pays good but is not the top of the league. Send me a page in Europe with 60% of those salaries. [1]: https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-engineering-manager https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-en...
- ThePhysicist 3y ago
  I know plenty of people that were recruited e.g. from AWS, Google etc. to come back to Europe, the big companies here don't match the salaries 100 % but 60-70 % is not unusual, otherwise it would be hard to convince people to come back. Sure if you're a run-of-the-mill university graduate with no particularly valuable skill set you won't be able to pull that off, but if I remember correctly in the US it's also not guaranteed to get into these companies. So not sure what's not true, do you want to say you believe there's no single software development manager or principal engineer at SAP, BMW or Zalando that earns in the range of 200-250 T€ including stock options? People don't share their salaries here on US platforms as much as in there so the data in levels.fyi is not very useful, but there's e.g. DATEV which has more detailed salary data (as they provide the tax software for most companies) which you can get access to, that shows a strong bimodal distribution with "regular" salaries and salaries for "exceptional" employees.

YetAnotherNick 3y ago

Sure if Europe is your thing, you should live there. Just don't make specific claims which are not true. Europeans earn lower than 40% for the senior positions. e.g see google salaries[1]. Google pays good but is not the top of the league. Send me a page in Europe with 60% of those salaries. [1]: https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-engineering-manager https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-en...

ThePhysicist 3y ago
I know plenty of people that were recruited e.g. from AWS, Google etc. to come back to Europe, the big companies here don't match the salaries 100 % but 60-70 % is not unusual, otherwise it would be hard to convince people to come back. Sure if you're a run-of-the-mill university graduate with no particularly valuable skill set you won't be able to pull that off, but if I remember correctly in the US it's also not guaranteed to get into these companies. So not sure what's not true, do you want to say you believe there's no single software development manager or principal engineer at SAP, BMW or Zalando that earns in the range of 200-250 T€ including stock options? People don't share their salaries here on US platforms as much as in there so the data in levels.fyi is not very useful, but there's e.g. DATEV which has more detailed salary data (as they provide the tax software for most companies) which you can get access to, that shows a strong bimodal distribution with "regular" salaries and salaries for "exceptional" employees.