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Originally Posted by goofyballer
I don't know if my company is particularly inaccurate, but my current salary at my current employer is well over what h1bdata/glassdoor show for engineering salaries.
For Netflix, as an example (they seem like a good barometer since they forgo stock for more base salary), Glassdoor says "senior software engineer" averages out to $206k. I'm not leaving my job and moving to the South Bay for that, but I also feel like that's probably significantly undercutting what a senior software engineer actually makes there (remember the $325k figure earlier ITT? I'd probably pack up for that much!).
Maybe part of the problem is that much like how college degrees became ubiquitous, now errybody is a "senior software engineer" and the term is meaningless.
Yeah, these aren't going to be very accurate, but you will hopefully be able to use it to filter some posers. Like if you want to make $200k, you know you don't have to bother with regular programming jobs at companies with a range from 80-120 or whatever. It's just unlikely that they are going to meet your expectations. (Oh they'll still want to know all about your whiteboard skills though)
The smaller a company is, the fewer data points they have, so that will introduce more inaccuracies. These are self reported, and smaller places will be paying their best people to not leave, so those salaries won't be in the mix. Also aren't salaries appreciating at like 10%/yr in the bay area ? If so any salary reported 2 years ago is 20% low.
To get the big salaries a company's product has to either be very valuable (like B2B industrial software) or has to have real scale like millions of users. They have to think they are competing with the FANGs for talent and be funded enough to do so.
Everybody else is trying to skirt by picking up scraps.