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Re:The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are not softwa... by lucozade on Friday August 26, 2016 @12:58PM (#12367562)
I would have thought that interns being paid 80k is more of a sign than product managers being paid more than engineers.
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Re:The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are not softwa... by frozenport on Friday August 26, 2016 @01:19PM (#12367732)
You are wrong. Interns are paid 75% of starting salary and don't work more than a few months. Many of these people are a year away from entering the labor force. With housing costs it's hard to take home more than a few k.
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Re:The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are not softwa... by lucozade on Friday August 26, 2016 @01:31PM (#12367826)
Fair enough. So it's the 105k graddie salary that's the bubble signifier rather than the intern salary per se. Makes sense.
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Re:The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are not softwa... by superuser2 on Friday August 26, 2016 @02:06PM (#12368076)
It actually doesn't. New grads at Google were getting ~$85k in 2006. By the CPI, that's ~$101k now. If "graddie" salaries were any less than that, wages would have actually decreased.
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Re:The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are not softwa... by frozenport on Friday August 26, 2016 @04:04PM (#12368934)
Where I work, engineers make the product. I'm noy sure what the other people do. I welcome the techno meritocracy.
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