Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience Level

Re:Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience L... by cgh on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @02:30PM (#15810035)

The key is to work remotely for a SV company but live in a cheap small town (this is a humblebrag). Higher salary, no Valley real estate madness, no freeway nightmares, placid country bumpkin existence preserved. I do have to bite the bullet and travel down to that blighted land a few times a year though.

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Re:Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience L... by up_and_up on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @02:40PM (#15810133)

I would say work remotely for a company in an expensive place but live in a cheap small town. This has worked out very well for me and my family. All the companies I have worked for were remote-first etc so I never felt like a second class citizen.

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Re:Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience L... by lj3 on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @04:29PM (#15811033)

Yes, but then you have to deal with the SV company. No amount of money is worth dealing with most of those companies.

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Re:Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience L... by kp1234321 on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @06:33PM (#15811921)

Hundreds of thousands of employees would disagree with you.

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Re:Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience L... by lj3 on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @08:26PM (#15812610)

I used to work there. You'd be surprised how many grow to hate it.

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Re:Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience L... by nnd on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @05:37PM (#15811554)

How would you find a SV company open to remote workers? I haven't heard of any.

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Re:Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience L... by bzbarsky on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @10:02PM (#15813118)

Mozilla is an "SV company", sort of, and open to remote workers.

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Re:Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience L... by nnd on Thursday November 30, 2017 @03:53AM (#15814336)

From their careers site:

"Mozilla is a global organization, and this role is available in our offices in the European Union, U.S., Canada, or home-based in the U.S., Canada, and European countries where Mozilla has a legal entity. You must have work authorization in one of these countries."

This is not remote work.

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Re:Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience L... by bzbarsky on Thursday November 30, 2017 @11:45AM (#15817150)

I'm not sure how "home-based" is not "remote". Yes, there are restrictions on possible countries where the employee lives, to do with legal bits like payroll taxes and whatnot.

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Re:Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience L... by cgh on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @05:43PM (#15811609)

Bigger companies often have good remote work policies. On the downside, these companies are rarely cool by the usual HN metrics and aren't normally mentioned here except dismissively.

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Re:Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience L... by mitochondrion on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @09:26PM (#15812962)

That sounds perfect. Is it too much to ask for three company names to start me off in looking?

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Re:Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience L... by Taniwha on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @04:28PM (#15811030)

Yup, works well for me too

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