Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows About Them

Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by harry8 on Friday December 30, 2016 @12:34AM (#13282742)

And yet they underpay and also use their lobbying muscle/money to change laws to keep engineering pay down.

Note the sheer desperation to keep the pay secret so it doesn't turn into an auction for scarce resources for engineering talent the way it does with lawyers, bankers, MBA's. If you're in it fore the money don't work for facebrick.

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Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by wheelerwj on Friday December 30, 2016 @12:49AM (#13282801)

payment is relative. to the rest ofnthe world, all of the SV engineers looks grossly over paid.

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Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by hueving on Friday December 30, 2016 @03:05AM (#13283204)

> to the rest ofnthe world, all of the SV engineers looks grossly over paid.

Only to people who don't understand economics. I know the salaries in NYC are high as well, but I understand the cost of living that drives that.

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Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by wheelerwj on Friday December 30, 2016 @09:35AM (#13284528)

no, even to people who understand economics.

the only reason the cost of living is so high in SF is because of grossly over paid employees who drive up the cost of living. its a private little island of inflation.

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Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by herbst on Sunday January 01, 2017 @10:24PM (#13298832)

Ive made a lower SV salary after my education in Bern Switzerland. I had to pay way less taxes, had benefits included, and cost of living was lower as well.

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Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by rhizome on Friday December 30, 2016 @01:05PM (#13285918)

Lobbying to keep pay down? To what does this refer?

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