Comment by Apocryphon
6 years ago
Apple is not known for paying great, either. So one wonders if it really is just Google and Facebook pumping the market up.
6 years ago
Apple is not known for paying great, either. So one wonders if it really is just Google and Facebook pumping the market up.
A lot of Amazon engineers have done amazingly well over the past 5 years what with the huge run-up in stock prices. This may not continue going forward, but don't underestimate how much bank they've made recently.
I think that's true but a good number of my coworkers at Apple got offers from Google as well and Apple outbid them
My theory (I could be wrong) is that both Google and Facebook and startups trying to emulate them are trying to exclusively hire from the same dozen elite universities. That would explain the salaries.
SRE has a lot of people without degrees. I don't know if SWE is still an ivory tower but just SRE salaries at G and FB can debunk this theory.