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- What is the actual average Software Engineer salary in the US? I know Blind is mostly focused on large multinationals and top tier tech companies. But I was wondering (and Google results were all over the place for this): What is the salary of an average SWE in the US?
- What's the average salary of software engineers in US tech giants? Title. In US dollars. ---------------------- No offense. Maybe it's a poor question, but I just want to know how big the salary gap is between US and China in tech sectors. Nothing else.
- Canada Compensation Nonsense — is this extremely unfair? This is a US company (that’s publicly traded). I’m interviewing for L3 or L4 (the level is going to be based on my interview performance). Nearly all devs are US-based, my future team is almost entirely based in the San Francisco Bay Area, so I'd be one rare developer working remotely from the Gre
- vote How long will the crazy tech salaries last? The median income in the US is $52k. The average tech salary is 3-7 times that. How long do you think this party will last?
- What is the average salary for new grad in one of the FAANG companies (In India) as a SDE? Also would like to know average salary for the same guy in US
- Amazon 20% increase in salary bands Amazon has increased salary band by 20% which will mostly help external hires. New pay bands for SDE/SDM in Seattle - L7 - 800k - L6 - 500K - L5 - 300k Amazon can go higher with competing offers. I have released an SDE III offer for 500K without any exceptions. Also an SDE 2 offer was released fo
- Blind is an echo chamber, no you do NOT have low TC. It seems almost no one on Blind actually knows what low TC is. You have people with 5 YOE claiming their 200K TC is low. You have new grads expecting 150K TC or more fresh out of college, this is getting ridiculous. The average US income is around 60K. And some people like to argue that they live i
- Busting some myths around HR 1044 with data One of the many arguments against HR1044 is that the India GC queue is mostly filled with "low merit" applicants from Indian consultancies that pay far lower salaries and import low skilled Indian tech workers into US. Did some digging to come up with the following 2 data snapshots about GC filings
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- Why everyone complain about pay in Canada? Kind of hard for me to understand why people think 100k CAD is trash pay. (I know US pays much more) That’s still more pay than the average Canadian household salary.... And average family still live with around 100k CAD in Toronto and Vancouver area.
- Europe salaries It is surprising to how UK and rest of Europe top-tier techies too receive average salaries, unlike top-tier US or India techies who make a lot in their country considering the cost of living. I understand that its because of demand and supply. Who are those people who could afford those 40k+ pound
- Average tax of H1B work visa holder equals median income of a US individual Look at these average salaries of H1B visa holders. These are not cheap labor salaries. These people are paying taxes - >30K in taxes every year. Those taxes go for US to take care of its citizens providing them with social security and Medicare benefits. Median annual income of US individual is
- UWaterloo SE ‘20 Survey. 🧐 Interesting 🧐 results For those who dont know, UWaterloo Software Engineering is an extremely competitive program in Canada with an average highschool average requriement of around 95-96%. The coop program is easily the best in Canada with 86% of graduates landing a coop in California (something very difficult for Canadi
- How much should one expect? My friend earns $125k after 4 yrs in US. He has MS in CS and is a SWE. He thinks that is the average salary here for his profile. How much should be his average? How to motivate him to grow?
- Amazon L6 Operations Manager Average Salary? Finding wide ranging data on the internet and would like to know if anyone knows the average salary for Amazon Operations Managers based in the US (CA, NV, AZ etc). Thanks in advance.
- Chances of landing a US offer as a Canadian FAANG employee? Getting tired of the low salary, gloomy weather, and high cost of living. How much luck would a Canadian with a M.S. in CS and 1 YOE at FAANG have when applying for jobs in the US? Ideally, I'd like to live in SF or LA ... not picky about the company, doesn't need to be prestigious or anything. Ev
- US citizen requirement == higher TC? For engineering roles that require US citizenship, (in tech companies not US govt contractors like Lockeed Martin), can/have you successfully negotiated a higher salary than the average TC given to the same level, without the requirement? #engineering #software #swe
- How much do you save monthly in canada? Asking for dollar amounts after taxes and average living expenses. Im only considering life in the main cities with good jobs use case #1 : Single person renting in toronto/vancouver use case #2 : family with a kid on 1 tech salary in vancouver/toronto use case #3 : family with a kid on 2 tech sa
- link Housing Market downturn For the folks looking forward to it it is happening. Feds have also indicated significant hikes in the coming months. Hang in there folks you will see it happening. The reason I feel it would strongly happen is because 1) the population of the United states hasn’t increased much to have a sudden
- Salaries in India What is the average salary for IT in India for a comparable position and company in US. Is it 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 or 1/10 of USA salary. We all know there are many outliers in USA and India, but that is not common.
- List of gem 💎 companies Not super well known (the likes of FANG) Great WLB (<= 40h, no or low on call). Good culture, no stack ranking, nice people, family friendly. Ok salary, enough to live but not for the TC chasers. I’ve heard good things about Expedia, Salesforce, ServiceNow, etc. Can you share your gem company?
- Tech salaries in Norway Hi Does anyone know the range of software engineers salaries in Norway compared to US. Eg in Silicon valley average/good experienced Senior SD is getting ~150k-300k ( this is to my best knowledge) What that numbers look like in Norway?
- Low tc compared to US peers? I am from India and my tc in INR falls in the average salary range in India. But I see posts in blind where TC like 200-300k USD is average for those living in US which implies we are underpaid here compared to the US peers. I have applied for some jobs outside India but due to covid and high remo
- Us returnee jobs in India Just curious to see, how easy is it to find jobs in Hyderabad? Asking for a friend who has 5 yoe in software engineering(SDE) in USA. Is the technical screen really bad ? Due to competition etc or People with US citizenship and US experience have some edge over others. What is average salary for p
- vote Housing prices to the moon due to money printing Japan printed $$$ in the 80s and their home prices 🚀 till no one can afford one (followed by decades of depression) . China printed $$$ around the 2010 and home prices 🚀🚀 , it takes 60 years of average salary to buy a small condo in Beijing. The US printed $$$ in 2020, in fact trillions are prin
- Best MSCS program for Transitioning into Software Engineering Hello all, I graduated from West Point with a BS in Operations Research (basically a math degree), and I am now looking at transitioning from the military to the private sector. I enjoyed the coding portion of my undergraduate degree, so I’m looking at getting into software engineering. I’ve applie
- How accurate is this image comparing US and Canada SWE salaries? Obviously Blind is very top heavy so most people on Blind in any of these cities will be making more than the averages given here. But generally speaking, is this accurate? If so, it shows that salaries in Toronto and Vancouver are significantly lower than basically every US city. And most of the US
- Engineer Salary in China? I am curious to know average salary in big Chinese corporations as an engineer. Specifically, what is annual income for college graduates and average engineers of about 10 years of experience? I read ar article somewhere before that Microsoft China used to pay a lot by Chinese standard before but no
- Average Salary increment over years I am a 2003-2007 BTech. Just out of curiosity I calculated average percentage increase in salary. For me it has gone up by 18% per year average. My wife 9YoE averaging 16%. Wanted to learn how does it look for you and what shaped ur career. Both of us have spent a few yrs at startups helping us w
- Why are good engineers scarce? Most of us on Blind get paid a lot due to scarcity. Given there’s so many coding camps and CS students, why is there so much demand? In other words, why can’t all that supply of students meet demands and drive salaries down? How shit is the average developer?
- What is the average TC of backend developer in India? My co. is a product based startup in Delhi. I build REST APIs and develop backend systems. My TC is 4.2 lacs 5.5k$ (only base). My YoE is 8 months. I know I am underpaid in US context. But in Indian context, what is the average TC for such profile? #salary #software #swe
- Owning a house in Bay Area How do middle class people in Bay Area afford to buy a house? Living in Bay Area and US for 2 years now, spouse working too. Family of 4. I don’t see how we can save 20% for an average 1.2 mil house? It will take another 4 years to save the down payment alone. Are there other ways like stock or fi
- Canada tech salaries will benefit from US companies going remote? Canada is known for comparatively very low salaries compared to the US. On average they get less than half of what their counterparts in US get. As now tech companies are going remote they can easily hire engineers from Canada. One of the main advantage Canada has got is same time zones and better q
- Salary range for Senior Software Engineer in Toronto Greetings! I have been contemplating moving to Toronto. I have been in tech industry for 7 years now with a Masters degree in CS from a good school in US. Looking for some help with what would be the average salary range I can expect in a city like Toronto for a senior software engineer with ~7 year
- vote What do you think of pay transparency? Are you okay with information which does not directly identify you but sharing statistics such as average and median pay for people under your manager and then your org? Showing statistics like experience level to pay matching? I think pay transparency can really help with bringing equal pay acros
- New grad salary negotiations I've interned for SpaceX and now Snapchat. However, I feel there aren't many salient point for me to use in salary negotiations (assume no competing offers) for companies in general. Aside from Glassdoor averages and covering basic living costs, any suggestions on the best way to approach this con
- Reasons for moving to London Went through couple of posts online (on blind and other places) to gather data about london. Here are few things which came out - Winters are depressing. Weather is bad from Oct to March. Summer are not great. It rains at times. Weather is better in cities like Amsterdam. - Pay is average as compa
- Variable salaries for remote jobs? I am currently living in Canada and applying to companies in the US for software engineer remote positions. Would my salary be dependent on where I live or is the listed salary on job posting the one I assume is correct? That is, do companies take into account the cost of living of where I am living
- Glassdoor and Blind There is no comparison between the numbers I see on glassdoor and on Blind. E.g i see average glassdoor L5 SDE salary at Amazon is ~ 170K in Seattle. There are people claiming 300K here. Are the numbers in Blind outliers? It will be unwise to use this for negotiation? Blind should create its own sur
- Avg salary in Design Verification in San Diego for 4YOE? Seeing qualcomm salaries about 130k with 20k/yr stock. Is this average, lower end, upper end? Seeing that decent house prices are $1m+, does this sound right? Reminds me of Vancouver where I'm from.... Shouldn't the US pay more? Canadian salary would be about 120k with 10-20k stock/yr so San Diego
- How to find remote SW work at startups in US? I am an engineer with 4 yoe based in romania. I have brands like amazon, SAP and Cisco on my resume. For a while I've been thinking on finding a remote position at a company based in us. Since the cost of living in Romania is dirt cheap, even the lowest paid positions in US would mean double that t
- How to respond when HR wants to know your expectations? The company I applied to is going to make me an offer and the HR sent me this message: We would like to know about your annual salary expectations. This company is based on USA, but the position is for Europe, and I am aware that salaries vary a lot, so I wonder how to actually respond. For instanc
- Microsoft china entry level SDE TC I have a masters degree in CS from a pretty good school in US and got an offer from MS china with: Yearly salary 240k RMB 60k rmb for other (sign on, relocation...) 170k rmb stock in 4 years I am wondering how competitive this offer is? What's the average entry level SDE TC in china? How much room
- link Apple ICT5 Offer for ML Engineer hope it helps others New: ML Engineer (ICT5) AI/ML Base: $220K Sign-on: $50K RSU: $700K (/ 4) Location: Seattle Current (Microsoft): Software Engineer L63 (Azure) Base: $170K Sign-on: $25k RSU: ~ $28k / year 😭 Location: Redmond hit four year cliff, no SSA came YoE: 4 (+ PhD in "high demand" ML a
- Salary expectations for Scrum Master? Remote preferred. I plan to change because the salary is way below the average (even for the state) and they are asking us to come back to the office 1 day a week (but the company and leaders in my team are great). Looking for something 100% remote, what should I be expecting as a fairly paid Master? I am a CSM and
- Oracle vs OCI benefits I heard a lot of rumors that OCI has different set of benefits comparing to the rest Oracle. For example unlimited vacation vs limited. What about other benefits? 401k match still matching 50% on 6% of base salary with 4 years vesting period? ESPP is just 5% discount on up to 10% of your base sala
- Negotiating salary for raise I currently work in a mssp as a security analyst 2. I was originally hired as a security analyst 1 in 2021 and got offered 50k on the spot after my final interview and the guy that talked to me wasn't HR. I kind of stupidly accepted on the spot which was lower than my internship before I accepted th
- Need urgent guidance! I need some guidance guys. I got a offer from a startup in the US and they are offering me: TC - $ 110000. City- Austin Yoe- 12 They will proceed with h1b process. I checked online and found that this is a little below average salary for a Dev Ops engineer. Is it worth giving it a try? If I ask to
- vote Is it worth moving from Microsoft Mexico to a remote job paid in USD? Hi, I work for Microsoft Mexico as a SDE, I guess my TC is above the average here in Mexico but I have some friends that got remote jobs with US companies and they are getting their salary in usd. I got curious about this and I applied to a remote position in a US company too, I got an offer and th
- AWS Recruiter ask for YOE and desired salary Just had final round interview with AWS (not an SDE position). The recruiter asks for my YOE in some domains as well as my salary expectation. I assume it’s going to be used to determine my salary in my offer. I have used some tools in domain A, not daily but (occasionally during 3 years of work) an
- Should you expect to get paid less on 5th year at FAANG? I think I'm not understanding how refreshers and/or the initial equity grant works at FAANG. Google is a good example since they publish most of this data. Assume you start at L5 (because you're not "expected" to be promoted to L6 in 5 years -- average is 6.5). If you start with an average package