Netflix comp. Question
If you look at the H1B filing (e. g. from h1bdata.info), it seems like the median Netflix base salary is ~170k, yet people here (and on levels.fyi) claim numbers like 450k base. What are the possible explanations of this discrepancy? Do they pay H1B employees less? Is it because H1B employees are often new grads and are not at the median Netflix salary level? Is it just that Netflix doesn't hire that many people on H1B so the data isn't representative?
H1B people don’t like to work at Netflix. Because of their hire and fire policy
Not sure where you are checking but as per dolstats perm filing, most of the wage/salaries reported in their application starting from 290K. This is for senior software engineer.
Thats the minimum salary. If you look at the LCA, they will present the range of pay. Companies nowadays put the prevailing wage and give a range in lca
Netflix doesn’t hire new grads.
H1B salary is the low bound number the employer will pay, not the exact number. Netflix nowadays provides a placeholder number that's enough for petition. You can be paid 500k and h1b number may be 200k. So that company doesn't need to reveal real numbers.
Ok that's what I was missing. Someone else also pointed this out above.
Lca doesn’t contain TC. Only base
For Netflix - base is the TC.
No bonus ?
No company will list all the actual salaries it pays for all their employees. These are the lower ranges of the range.
The number you see in public is the prevailing wage in the H-1B LCA form. The actual salary will be paid can be arbitrary higher than this number. The actual salary is written in H-1B application package but is not seeable to public.
I had exact same question, even if you look at the other companies you can finds this discrepancy.