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Tech's Highest-Paid Engineers Are At Juniper

Posted by timothy on from the fringes-matter-quite-a-bit dept.

Phoghat writes "The guys at Glassdoor have compiled a list of the 25 tech companies with the best salaries for software engineers. Google and Facebook made the list, of course. So did Apple and Twitter. But the company at the very top is a bit of a surprise: networking gear maker Juniper Networks."

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  1. this does not include stock, bonus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    base pay only. Only total package counts.

  2. Bad data by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Base salary is only a fraction of the compensation. I work for one of the top 5 and the base plus stock per year for a fresh COLLEGE GRADUATE engineer is higher than the "average" salary listed for the company. All this really says is that your company is in Silicon Valley where you need 100k a year to rent a decent apartment.

    1. Re:Bad data by lgw · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Save $2k/month? That's off. When I lived in Silly Valley this year my rent was less than $2k, and I had a nice modern 2-bedroom (and no roommate). Of course, that was with a bit of a commute - close in it would have been 2200 or so.

      It's amazing what people can find to spend their money on. Live cheap until you're independently wealthy - your freedom is by far the best gift to yourself.

      --
      Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
  3. LinkedIn at 2? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    LinkedIn is obviously overpaying. No way is any of the code coming out of there as good as pretty much anybody below them on the list.

    1. Re:LinkedIn at 2? by Joining+Yet+Again · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Capitalism is about supply&demand, not effort&quality. The aim is to invest capital efficiently in response to demand instead of labouring.

      It's depressing that people understand so much about recent complex scientific developments, but don't have the simplest grasp of an economic system that's centuries old.

  4. "engineers" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    programing is not engineering.

  5. Re:I can't tell from the post by Sir_Sri · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Those wouldn't be starting salaries unless you have a graduate degree or experience and are jumping into a senior position.

    Last I checked (which was a couple of years ago) a fresh PhD starting at google was in the 130-140 range, and a fresh undergrad was usually in the 80 range - at least that's what my students get.

  6. Some Caveats by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As they note: "Because Glassdoor only includes companies where at least 50 engineers have submitted salaries, there are some high-paying companies that didn’t make the list. Netflix, for example, often pays engineers far more than other companies" which, working at Netflix, I can confirm -- software engineers get paid substantially more than at Juniper at Netflix and as for "some startups that are paying software developers close to the same salaries as management" -- Ha. I manage a software development group, and about half of my engineers get paid substantially more than I do. And that's probably right, because they'd be harder to replace than I would be.

    (Posted as AC for what are probably obvious reasons)