Google salaries in Poland are below market rate, actually. They probably think that people will come to work for them for free just because they want to have "Google" on their resume. Source: I was approached by a Google recruiter once, but did not even schedule an interview because of the lowball offer presented (total comp, including stock options, was way below what I make currently). $7k is not a market rate in Poland, unless you're talking $7k after all taxes.

I find it hard to believe that 7k USD / month would be a below market salary in Poland.

Surprisingly at the moment for senior positions in Warsaw it is:

Open positions offering more than $7k at the current exchange rates in Warsaw:

https://justjoin.it/warszawa/all/all/32k

Some are in USD.

Also, current exchange rate (4.5 PLN per dollar) is unusual, only caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Average rate over last couple years is probably 3.9 PLN, which would make $7k closer to 28k PLN, not 32.

Depends on location and experience. 7k USD/mo gross is below market for senior/staff positions in larger cities.

And senior/staff people at Google don't get 7k either. This is yet again a case of myopic lense where someone can't see beyond their own special little island and does invalid comparisons.

Certainly, that's why I responded. Tech salaries are becoming bimodal (or even "trimodal" [1]), and different types of companies are targeting different segments of the talent market. This skews the perception people have on what is actually a market rate, so it's important to spread awareness...

[1] - https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala...

yep. I try to gauge early whether an potential employer wants the best programmer, or cheapest. because they pay wildly different. one gives me a better personal ROI than other. The new trend of shops being coy about telling you a job's pay makes it harder. no point wasting everybody's time

You must be talking about some senior positions right? No one at my large corpo earns more than 15k PLN.

Then you are being underpaid big time. These days 15k pln is a nice salary for a solid mid level backend engineer.

Average salaries from these types of aggregate reports are misleading since they are mostly representative only of the low-end local range. The median salary for senior engineers (5-10 years of experience) in Warsaw, according to levels.fyi, is 91k USD. I find that to match my experience in a different large city in Poland.

Yes, I was contacted regarding some Cloud Architect position, shortly after GCP opened their region in Warsaw.

I am talking gross/contract to be clear and yes, senior.

There’s also lots of talent in neighboring Belarus, where Google indirectly has a presence through their acquisition of Fitbit (or had, not sure if their office is open anymore after the recent events in there). Sort of glad though that they didn’t decide to expand their small office they have here in Bucharest (also through the Fitbit acquisition), the local real estate market was getting quite heated regardless so extra gentrification brought by behemoths like Google extending their presence wouldn’t have helped.

AFAIK Google also has EPAM employees from Belarus as external contractors.

Yep, lots of EPAM contractors working for Google

epam, akveo, luxoft... cheap workforce under authoritarian rule is too sweet to resist. Now kryndrylyl is trending, or whatever is its name.