Salary ranges for Software Engineer in Amsterdam

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Dec 11, 2018 36 Comments

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What are salary ranges for software engineer in companies like Booking, Amazon, Uber, Ebay and similar in Amsterdam?

Considering moving there from Germany.

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Booking.com enOl20

Don't, no housing, little social benefits (in case you wanted to start a family) and the food is disgusting.

Dec 11, 2018 5 11
- Booking.com enOl20
  
  Ive never been to USA, and being european I don't see myself living there long term. If you are fine with not having a car, taking public transport and/or bicycle wherever you go, small spaces and paying up to 52% tax, it's a great country. I would prefer it here to Bay area, but Im not sure if I would move here from Germany.
  
  Dec 11, 2018 0
- Booking.com / Product f911
  
  Amsterdam has a lot of restaurants and unfortunately a lot are only okay. However, there are a lot of great restaurants when you start to look! Takes some time but they are all over the place.
  
  Dec 11, 2018 1
- Booking.com / Eng Testicool
  
  I think we are getting the company’s food and the city’s food mixed up.
  
  Dec 11, 2018 0
- Booking.com enOl20
  
  Amsterdam does have a great restaurants, don't get me wrong. It is just the food on the market that is tasteless. Most vegetables are engineered to maximise food production with the little land they have, and unfortunately it took away the taste.
  
  Dec 11, 2018 1
- Booking.com / Other b.sasmore
  
  This is all bullshit, I love the food at supermarkets here and benefits are quite good
  
  Dec 16, 2018 4
Uber triccirt

We pay pretty well, compared to Europe and definitely compared to Amsterdam. TC for L4 is around €120K, for L5, around €170K. You can see details for a recent L5 here: “Underleveled at Google or overleveled at Lyft? (Compensation)"
https://us.teamblind.com/s/mj34ym5o

TC assumes a $70B valuation. The press is talking about a $120B IPO which could rocket those figures to somewhere like €145K & €200K due to the stock components. (Of course with a lower than $70B IPO, the same true the other direction).

You get the 30% ruling for 5 years if you’ve not lived 150km within the border before.

Dec 13, 2018 8 6
- Uber triccirt
  
  Yes! You get RSUs issued when you join, using the given 409a valuation (which values Uber a “bit” lower than what the media is speculating for IPO value).
  
  This is the risk/reward joining a pre-IPO company. Soon we’ll be post-IPO and the potential upside will be different.
  
  Dec 13, 2018 1
- Booking.com / Eng sgggplus
  
  What's does the base look like? for l4? Around 70-75?
  
  Dec 13, 2018 0
- Uber triccirt
  
  For L4 base is more like 80-90K.
  
  Dec 14, 2018 3
- Amazon / Eng Gjs23ff
  OP
  
  Wow, it's way more than I get now in Germany
  
  Dec 14, 2018 0
- Booking.com / Eng sgggplus
  
  Thanks! Do you know if that's the same for Data Scientists? Current there are only analyst positions open but senior range is 63-77k, which is not that great
  
  Dec 14, 2018 0
Booking.com CurryEater

Don’t take too seriously any advice from Booking developers. These are some of the saltiest mofos you’ll find on Blind.

Dec 11, 2018 9 3
- Booking.com Olllld
  
  And who should they ask if they want to know more about working at Booking?
  
  Dec 11, 2018 0
- Booking.com CurryEater
  
  Us, but they should just be aware that they’re going to get biased opinions.
  
  Dec 11, 2018 0
- Booking.com B.NewYear
  
  CurryEater is the saltiest sucker of them all.
  
  Jan 1 0
Booking.com B.dronio

There is Amazon office in AMS, you might just consider moving there.

Also avoid B.com at all costs. Thats travel company, not tech company despite anything they say.

Dec 22, 2018 9 0
Booking.com Olllld

If you’re living 150km far away from the nearest Dutch boarder to you (straight line on the map) you’ll get 30% ruling (for 8 years now but they will consider to make it only 5 years, they tried but decided to postpone the decision)

Base salary for new hires: ~75k (up to 80k if you do exceptional in the interviews)
Bonus: 15% (can get up or down based on ur performance and the company performance)
Stocks: around 25k (3 years to vest and 1/3 vest every year)

Dec 11, 2018 1 4
- Booking.com Olllld
  
  Try to get offer as senior (do very good in he system design interview and the fit interview)
  Base: ~95k
  Bonus: 20%
  Stocks: idk haven’t had any since promotion
  
  Dec 11, 2018 3
- eBay martinw
  
  That sounds absurdly low considering the higher taxes. Is it fair to compare this with a 250k TC in the Bay area? Is the cost of living half too?
  
  Dec 12, 2018 0
- Booking.com Olllld
  
  Never compare Europe with US 😂 The only place in Europe that pay similar or even higher than US is Zurich
  
  Dec 12, 2018 0
- Booking.com / Other b.sasmore
  
  TC for Senior goes around 180k with stocks. You only work max 8h day at Booking.
  
  Dec 16, 2018 0
Booking.com / Eng B.adoo

Why move?
Taxes in NL will eat all your salary.
In B for a backend eng you can get up to 80k€

Dec 11, 2018 1 4
- Amazon / Eng Gjs23ff
  OP
  
  In Germany taxes are not better. Is 80k just base or total compensation?
  
  Dec 11, 2018 0
- Booking.com / Eng B.adoo
  
  II don’t really know what is TC in your understanding.
  80k = salary + holiday allowance.
  There is also (not guaranteed) yearly bonus and stocks + other perks.
  
  Dec 11, 2018 2
- Microsoft / Eng myuter
  
  Isn't there a tax exemption for expats ?
  
  Dec 11, 2018 0
- Booking.com enOl20
  
  There is, 30% ruling for 5 years (or is it less now?) But one needs to move from area further than Xkm, so not all people moving from Germany can get it.
  
  Dec 11, 2018 0
Amazon / Eng Gjs23ff
OP

What about other companies in Amsterdam? How do they compare in salaries with Booking and Uber?

Dec 14, 2018 0 1
- Booking.com / Other b.sasmore
  
  Most pay less
  
  Dec 16, 2018 0

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