Downsides to working at a tech giant

Re:Downsides to working at a tech giant by Apocryphon on Monday December 23, 2019 @06:09PM (#21868321)

Apple is not known for paying great, either. So one wonders if it really is just Google and Facebook pumping the market up.

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Re:Downsides to working at a tech giant by CydeWeys on Monday December 23, 2019 @09:55PM (#21869483)

A lot of Amazon engineers have done amazingly well over the past 5 years what with the huge run-up in stock prices. This may not continue going forward, but don't underestimate how much bank they've made recently.

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Re:Downsides to working at a tech giant by why_only_15 on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @03:28PM (#21874681)

I think that's true but a good number of my coworkers at Apple got offers from Google as well and Apple outbid them

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Re:Downsides to working at a tech giant by Gibbon1 on Monday December 23, 2019 @06:24PM (#21868427)

My theory (I could be wrong) is that both Google and Facebook and startups trying to emulate them are trying to exclusively hire from the same dozen elite universities. That would explain the salaries.

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Re:Downsides to working at a tech giant by kev009 on Monday December 23, 2019 @07:08PM (#21868688)

SRE has a lot of people without degrees. I don't know if SWE is still an ivory tower but just SRE salaries at G and FB can debunk this theory.

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