Gap between software and Hardware salary closing fast?
Now that world knows chips also matter and compensation in hardware is increasing. Do you think we can come anywhere close to software engineer salaries in Maang #hardware #salarycomparison .
In Intel? No fucking way.
I work for a sw team that has a small presence of HW engineers. They compensate us at the swe salaries.
Basically, amazon underpays SWEs and there is no way they overpay the HWEs. Fucking frugality
Swe has also grown. Look at Amazon, they're having to offer 350k+ for SDE 2's. Sure we have a shortage, but inflation and tech growth is also largely bumping up swe pay as well.
The gap is already closed at higher levels at FAANG
What level at apple?
Comparable at mid ICT4 and above
So far no higher margins in software. Unless there is a game changer hardware tech that everyone needs like AI or some shit. Then we can see big shifts in market. Right now everyone and all new grads are jumping to software for big TC. There is barely any new grads for hardware. Slowly no one do hardware anymore then maybe salaries can go up.
I think the gap seems to be closing because of the hyperscalers. But even in the hyperscalers software seems to pay more for now, at least they take hardware more seriously and realize that skilled workers are more scarce in hardware
The gap already is small within MAANG etc., Hardware is making usually at least 70% of swe which is awful good. The tier 2 and below market has so far to go it'd probably take decades to catch up. Just too many moderately capable hardware engineers willing to work for about 100k.
People need to stop being complacent
The key is to work on hardware at a software company, like Google.