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Originally Posted by maxtower
Make sure to research glassdoor beforehand to make sure salary expectations aren't way off.
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Originally Posted by jjshabado
Sites like: https://h1bdata.info/ are also useful. Yes, they're incomplete (no bonus / equity information) but still useful for seeing ballpark numbers.
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.