Which company in the Hardware sector pays the most TC?

Apple
JohnDoe7

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JohnDoe7
Mar 17, 2021 127 Comments

Looking to switch, and was wondering which hardware company pays the most TC as far as your knowledge goes....
My software friends are paid like crazy by companies like Uber/ Snap. What do hardware folks do to go to that higher TC bracket?

YOE: 4ish
TC: 200k

#hardware #semiconductor

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  • Facebook
    πŸ•shibaπŸ•

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    πŸ•shibaπŸ•
    I’m at Snap now and get paid more than I did at FB.
    Mar 19, 2021 33
  • Intel / Eng
    pleb

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    pleb
    Get out of hw, learn javascript and do leet. In Intel lounge there is a guy who switched from hw to sw and the TC jump was 120 to 300. While the 300 is not that much, the jump is impressive so it shows it can be done.
    Mar 19, 2021 13
    • Google
      LrBL47

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      LrBL47
      The house was 100 years old in the East Bay and had almost every problem you could think of. We waived everything but the appraisal, had two competing offers and ultimately went 75K over asking price of $475K to win the bid. We only put 15% down + closing (~95K) because we knew we had all the other expenses to cover after we bought the house (budgeted about another 80K for first year). I was not contributing to my 401K (since my startup was not offering one) so all my savings went to the house.

      I was on finaid in college (my family was poor) and worked to cover any remaining costs. My husband worked, had scholarships, and invested his student loans in the stock market in college. We both went to grad school (tuition + stipend paid for RA position), which gave us a longer grace periods on the loans. As a result, we paid off the loans and even managed some savings when we graduated. Rent in SF was a sticker shock ($3K/month) but other than that, we continued to live fairly uninflated lifestyles that allowed us to save a lot each year. We splurged once a year on a vacation, but did so on a budget (motels, camping, award points, economy flights).

      I will admit the first 2-3 years of owning our house were not the most pleasant time of my life--house poor and living on a tight budget to afford renovations. I definitely feel very lucky now that it's all done and I'm at a more stable job where I don't ever worry about money anymore. My case may be a bit exceptional...but I also had a coworker at my former startup (also made less than 130K) buy a brand new townhouse in Hayward for $850K about years ago after he quit and worked at Apple for a year. He's also in hardware, my age, lived in the Bay less than 10 years, not as frugal, and I'm pretty sure he wasn't making $500K. Houses in my neighborhood currently are selling above $1 million, but smaller fixer uppers look to be around $650-$850.

      It's definitely doable to have a decent life and raise a family in $300K. It just depends where/what you want to buy and how you're willing to live to get there. You certainly won't make it if you spent your 20s living in a luxury apartment and spending money on things like fancy restaurants, top shelf liquor, extravagent international vacations, or designer handbags. Nor if you have plans of having 4 kids and raising them in a 3000sqft house on a 1 acre lot. No one should have the mentality that they are somehow still middle class making $300K though (middle class is generally defined as 2/3-2x the median income, which is less than $150K in a lot of cities in the bay area).
      Mar 22, 2021
    • Intel / Eng
      pleb

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      pleb
      Thanks for the ample response ! I was thinking mostly about South Bay but even Fremont is unaffordable now. The majority of hw companies are in this area so if you go farther away, the commute becomes prohibitive. When a 1200 sq ft is listed at 1.3m and goes for 1.6m, you can't catch up with the market on 300k.
      Mar 22, 2021
  • Apple / Eng
    djdosne

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    djdosne
    Recently been seeing some high HW offers out of fb
    Mar 18, 2021 12
    • New
      wmwmwm

      New

      wmwmwm
      @Lyft, What are death marches?
      Apr 12, 2021
    • Lyft
      Aaqq17

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      Aaqq17
      When everyone is working overtime and/or screaming at each other to ship a doomed product that will not make any difference in the world. Or when you are just working overtime because some incompetent TPM or director that was good at software and wanted to go into hardware screwed up all the exel spreadsheets and spent x3 the money to cut down 1/2 the times and now the project is taking x3 the time and is over budget but somehow all engineers are getting promoted anyway.
      Apr 12, 2021
  • Adafruit
    oibe10

    Adafruit

    oibe10
    Adafruit do not pay well at all.
    Mar 19, 2021 2
  • Hdw roles at core software companies pay significantly higher than hardware companies themselves.
    Mar 19, 2021 0