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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by vesrah on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @02:15PM (#16757383)
CoL and benefits need to be figured into your assertion
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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by walshemj on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @02:41PM (#16757635)
Yes right trouble is this is often used by hr to try and explain why they don't pay market rate.

Doesn't really explain why google pays less in London UK for that google does in low col states in the states.

And I don't think Lockheed and BAE pay their engineers as much as FANG companies do and they certainly don't out compete on benefits.

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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by geodel on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:38PM (#16759950)
Exactly right. Somehow people keep explaining high salaries of FANG in terms of cities/area in US. Truth is more likely that these companies have immense market cap and profitability and being helmed by first generation liberal entrepreneurs they are happy with sharing benefits.

IBM, Cisco or any other typical IT company pays 120-150K salaries in bay area and not much of profit sharing/ equity.

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