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Re:What I've learned from 100s of interviews with candidates... by TulliusCicero on Thursday May 25, 2017 @03:50PM (#14419652)
200k is mid-level at Google. Senior engineers make significantly more, and staff engineers make a LOT more.

Now if you want a big house, then most of the cities that Google is in are terrible for that. But there's more to life than having a big house, and the expensive metros have their own pros. It's pretty hard to beat Silicon Valley weather, and for what amounts to a giant suburb the restaurant scene is quite good (especially for Asian food).

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Re:What I've learned from 100s of interviews with candidates... by deong on Friday May 26, 2017 @01:05AM (#14422105)
Well sure. I'm not arguing otherwise. I'm just responding to a comment vaguely asserting that you can't make Google money in a boring corporate job. He wasn't arguing that the city was nicer. He just said, basically, "where else are you doing to get 200-300k". Well, if what you care about is how much of that you get to keep, lots of places.
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