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by jakub_g
1989 days ago
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I don't work at FAANG but from knowing the EU market from friends and public data on Twitter, salaries in (non-FAANG) US companies like Uber, Yelp, Datadog are mostly not achievable in other companies for individual contributors, due to stock grants and general huge pile of VC cash the US companies have. |
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IMO people are not that desperate to work at FAANG in EU as in US (from what you can feel reading HN, blogs etc. "FAANG or die", "leetcode for life").
Reasons are: 1) FAANG have limited presence in EU. Often you'd have to move countries or at least cities. In many smaller cities you can also make good money in IT with lower cost of living outside of FAANG; 2) they pay better, but nowhere near the US market craze; you can get,say, 20k better but not 200k better; 3) FAANG in EU tend to hire rather senior engineers; 4) there's this feeling that it's hard to get there and you get whiteboarded with irrelevant process, so many people don't even bother trying; 5) many people are perhaps not very up to date with US companies' salaries possibilities (open salary sharing in EU is not very common, and glassdoor often has few / outdated data points; outsiders don't know about Blind, levels.fyi etc).
Having said that I'm in my 30s so I don't know what current students think.