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Re:Salary transparency at Stack Overflow by TulliusCicero on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @03:22PM (#12175770)
Depends on who you see as their competition. If their competition consists of 'average' tech companies, their salaries are probably fine. If their competition is Google, Facebook, et al. then yeah they're probably low. A new grad at Google can make 160-170k USD between salary+bonus+stock.
Re:Salary transparency at Stack Overflow by Nick-Craver on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @09:52PM (#12177830)
Stack Overflow employee here. This is just my view, but: I wouldn't want to work for Google r Facebook over Stack Overflow. Happiness is part of the compensation and is has real value in choosing where to work.

Would I make more dollars working for Google? Sure. But I couldn't work remote. And I can't make an impact like I can here. Right now I can rapidly push out changes to help millions of people and interact with them directly, every day. That's a really rare thing and something that you just can't do or do on the same level once you're part of a much more massive machine.

Does Google make an impact? Of course, you'd be crazy to argue they don't make a massive one. But I'd argue employees 1-50 were able to do a lot more to change the world with their hours in a week than employees 60,000-60,050 are able to. I want to improve people's lives, every day. I just can't do that or be as close to the result if I did it working somewhere like Google or Microsoft. There's value in these things, to me.