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Re:In Silicon Valley, many want sharing salary info to be le... by morgante on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @07:15PM (#9926583)
> Uh...it looks like they are paying a lot of engineers >$90,000.

Market rate for junior engineers is >$100k and for senior engineers it's easily >$150k.

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Re:In Silicon Valley, many want sharing salary info to be le... by ForHackernews on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @08:19PM (#9926867)
Says who? Where are you getting that information, if you think nobody should talk about their salaries?
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Re:In Silicon Valley, many want sharing salary info to be le... by morgante on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @09:27PM (#9927158)
> Says who? Where are you getting that information, if you think nobody should talk about their salaries?

From friends, offers I've received, and offers I've given.

It's not that I don't think anybody should talk about their salaries. It's that we shouldn't have "open" salaries—nobody should be compelled to reveal their salary, particularly in an "anonymous" way.

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