Tech's Highest-Paid Engineers Are At Juniper

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."

Comments

Thanks slashdot.... now I feel underpaid.

[mark-t]

I barely make half of the average of the 25th place company...

Bad data

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Bad data

[Sir_Sri]

Don't rent buy.

That's same with any big city/small town setup - you buy a house in the city (or suburbs of the city anyway), when it comes time to retire you sell your house and move to a small town half an hour a way, buy a comparable house for half the price, and the other half becomes most of your retirement nestegg.

Re:Bad data

[lgw]

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.

Re:Bad data

[rollingcalf]

The schools are bad because they can't attract good teachers to the area due to the high cost of living, and they're not willing to double or triple the salaries to bring in the good teachers.

Re:LinkedIn at 2?

[Joining Yet Again]

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.

misses size & location, distribution of compan

[zrelativity]

Many of those companies are based in the Silicon Valley (particularly Santa Clara, North San Jose, Sunnyvale and Mountain View) where your cost of living is very high.

If you were in Washington State or Texas (Dallas), your cost of living maybe only half of what it is Silicon Valley. When I was living in Dallas, I was paying less than half of what I now pay for an apartment in San Jose. There is state tax too. Juniper is relatively small.

What was surprising to me was to see Walmart, but I don't know their Software Engineering group size or location.

Not surprising. . . .

[sgt_doom]

has anyone ever read Goralski's book on networking (he's a top engineer there)?

http://www.amazon.com/The-Illustrated-Network-Kaufmann-Networking/dp/0123745411

Re: misses size & location, distribution of co

[Badblackdog]

Wal-Mart does not skimp on IT/security infrastructure and equipment upgrades. I have been doing data, phone, CCTV and alarm service work in Wal-Mart/Sam's for years. They are not afraid to spend money on tech.

Greetz to my buds

[TheRealHocusLocus]

Greetz to my buds at Juniper's Special NSA Piggyback Slurp Packet Sniffle Fiber Fruitcake Utah Datacenter Cluster Zap Lightning Products Division.

Glad to see someone is living the American dream.

Just joking. I know full well that routers do not listen to people, people listen to people.

Re:"engineers"

[russotto]

programing is not engineering.

Yeah, that's what the guy who drives the train tells me.

Re:I can't tell from the post

[Sir_Sri]

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.