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I thought I was hearing a lot of chatter in the past few years that Google's salaries weren't that great and that the benefits/environment are really what made
by jere 14y ago
I thought I was hearing a lot of chatter in the past few years that Google's salaries weren't that great and that the benefits/environment are really what made it worthwhile (e.g. if you attempted to negotiate they would come back with a calculation about the value of the free food).
Has this changed or was I misinformed? A bump of $13k in a single year does, of course, seem quite significant.
- libria 14y agoI do remember 2 things which might have bumped it up. To stem the stream of developers going to pre-IPO Facebook and other Valley up-and-comings[1], they bumped salaries up 10% across the board + making bonuses part of salary that year, IIRC. Also, a Valley salary corroboration was exposed recently[2]. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2417577 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2417577 [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3521817 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3521817
- Evbn 14y agoThe food thing was a myth spread on HN.
- jere 14y agoReally? This blog post is a lie? http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/01/21/notfree/ http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/01/21/notfree/