If you're a software engineer in a city where these companies employ folks and you're thinking this doesn't apply to you, I'd encourage you to at least give it a shot. It's not only the absolute best of the best who get these jobs.<p>I recently decided to do a round of interviews after 10+ years as an independent web / iOS dev, having <i>never</i> had a professional software dev job. I'm also a self-taught developer with a business degree from a no-name state school. Despite all that, I've been really surprised and happy with the market reception here in NYC. I got interest from the bigger guys like Amazon, FB, and Twitter, as well as smaller companies like Dropbox, Stripe, Square, Coinbase, etc. Last week, I got a very good senior / staff offer from one of the smaller public companies for around $400k in first year comp. With bonuses, promotions, refreshers, etc, that could easily average $500k - 600k per year over the next few years. And I had no competing offers. Some of the other companies I'm in the loop with will almost certainly offer quite a bit more, although I love this company that made the offer and I'll probably just drop the other interviews and take it. Comp isn't everything.<p>All this to say, if you're interested in making more $$ and these companies are hiring where you live, don't pass it up because you think it's only for hotshot 22-year-olds coming out of Stanford.
Looks like they're including RSUs for private companies as equivalent to cash, which <i>dramatically</i> skews the data.<p>For private companies, RSUs aren't liquid, and ISOs actually <i>cost</i> money to exercise, so they arguably have negative value. Treating them as cash-equivalent makes these rankings very misleading.
These salaries are incredibly high for someone who never worked at a tech company in the valley. What's the general consensus on whether these salaries will increase, decrease, or stay the same in the medium term (i.e., next 5-10 years)?
As a Canadian Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience.. I think this list is comical..<p>I've managed to barely squeeze 120k-130k CAD (90-100k USD) out of big companies here (e.g Shopify).
I'm not sure if having free medicare is worth losing 2-300k...<p>Oh and I've tried applying for remote positions in the US and I get the good ol compensation skewed based on COL mantra.
I feel like this list is skewed by cost of living. The top four cities are also very expensive cities to live in and around. 200k in the bay area is scraping by whereas 100k in the Austin area gets you a house in a reasonable amount of time.<p>Are there any plans to provide adjustments like that?
Is this getting flagged? It's currently near the bottom of page 4, and should be in the top 10 of page 1. Are HN'ers just bitter / skeptical of these numbers?
Obviously San Francisco and New York City have the highest salaries... they have the highest cost of living. Can we get a list adjusted for cost of living?
These salaries is kind of obscene. But then, the conduct and social impact (in the US or outside of it) of many of these companies is also kind of obscene: Lyft and Uber employ pseudo-freelancers for very low effective wages; AirBnB are keeping apartments out of the regular rental market in favor of jacked up per-day prices; Facebook tracks everybody and shapes (to some extent) their consciousness and knowledge of the world; and so on.