Which experienced hires here have the lowest TC?

GEOTAB / Eng
jkin

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jkin
Oct 17, 2021 71 Comments

Every other intermediate or higher engineer here apparently is a borderline millionaire or will be in a few years.

They get talked about enough. What about those near the bottom of the food chain like me?

110 CAD, 4 yoe. In Toronto too so one of the highest col places in the world.

Can anyone beat my trash TC? Underachievers, this topic is for you!

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  • Roblox
    PFlL26

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    PFlL26
    what’s stopping you folks from getting the big bucks?

    anyone can get 300K+ with 4 yoe.

    work for high-margin internet companies that need to move fast.

    just do 100 LC, you’ll suck at first until you start noticing patterns. there’s literally nothing special about faang+ talent. tbh, most of them are pretty mediocre.

    tc 2.5-1.2m, 6 yoe
    Oct 17, 2021 13
    • OP, we Canadians really need to listen to this guy. If you surround yourself too much with Canadian peers then there is a "buckets in crab" mentality, because over here anything over 100k CAD is seen as really good already, and 200k is some VP-level/doctor pay. If you go on Canadian subreddits and say you make above 70-80k, you already start to get downvoted for making too much lol. That's how sad it is.

      Have dev friends who are happy getting 65-80k CAD because they were making like 40k before in previous career... people here are too mentally anchored to low numbers, and they barely see or hear of anyone clear 100-150k. They think you need some crazy coding skills or many years of experience to "deserve" or be "worthy" of higher tiers of pay, when in reality it just matters which company you're at. Canadian companies have no incentive to pay above market or at anywhere near US-levels, and they'll think you're crazy for asking for that. These days, salaries are trimodal.

      Source: more YoE and around same TC as you
      Oct 18, 2021
    • GEOTAB / Eng
      jkin

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      jkin
      OP
      q3178 I couldn't agree more, Canadians have no idea of their real worth. What is crazy to me is living costs are going through the roof. 100k today is not even the same as 50k a few years ago and yet there is little public outcry.
      Oct 18, 2021
  • Compass
    Amchur

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    Amchur
    11 Yoe India
    90k USD
    Oct 17, 2021 2
  • 10 YOE
    160k USD
    L62

    I am pathetic.
    Oct 17, 2021 7
    • Tekion
      hulkb

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      hulkb
      Microsoft, if you're looking, please feel free to DM if you can find a relevant job on careers website.
      Oct 17, 2021
    • Oracle
      patch’d

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      patch’d
      I will be happy to help with referrals as well.
      OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) pays really good. Not sure if there’s an office in Canada, but I do see a few openings in Vancouver.
      Wlb isn’t bad. Definitely less than 40 hrs/week. Oracle stock has grown a lot recently and experts still think its undervalued.
      Not sure if they have an office in Canada but I do see a few openings in Vancouver.
      @microsoft: they will pounce on you once they know you are in Azure. They really want to up their cloud business so they have been hiring a lot of ppl from AWS and I guess Azure as well.
      Please DM me for referrals whoever wants them. Not doing this for referral bonus, so you can keep that as well.
      Oct 17, 2021
  • Apple
    eiSL06

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    PRE
    Apple
    eiSL06
    One of my parents in the Bay Area worked a full shift yesterday after taking PTO for $22/hr
    Oct 17, 2021 0
  • Microsoft / Eng
    ×_×

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    PRE
    Donut
    ×_×
    4 yoe living in Ireland
    100k euros
    Oct 17, 2021 10
    • Visa
      particles-

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      particles-
      > Remember your 25+ days of vacations, access to a doctor for free (or maybe something like €50)

      Isn't most of this covered by a US tech company?
      At least even at my low YoE, I get 21 days.
      Oct 18, 2021
    • Not really. Most people on H1B visas barelly take 10 days of vacation. Even Americans usually don't take their full vacations. Here it's not a choice not to tak use your holiday entitlement.
      Employees also pay a fair share of private healthcare costs every month and, even so, aren't fully covered.
      Personal anecdote: My wife needed an emergency kidney transplant circa 3 years ago. She was an inpatient for a while, and her stay included over a month in the ICU - like I said, shit happens. Her treatment was tully covered by the NHS (her donor was a family member not covered by NHS so I ended up having to pay the bare minimum to cover the donor's side of the surgery). Every day I count my lucky that I was working in a country with an amazing public healthcare system such as the NHS.
      More than that, due to what happened I barely worked for over 6 months; my manager didn't even blink, I was paid full salary while on emergency leave looking after my wife and our children.
      If I was in my home country - or in US for the sake of argument - I would probably end up broke and jobless (in US I would most certainly lose my visa status as well). In the UK I never lost my visa nor my job (I'm now a Permanent Residency). Also NHS charged me something that was almost symbolic. I paid around £5k in several installments - and again, I was only charged because the donor wasn't a person covered by NHS.

      Call me a sucker, but this is why it's hard to convince me that US TC > European lifestyle.
      Oct 18, 2021