[joshgev]

> There are a few reasons why Facebook and Google software engineers are so ignored and underpaid.

It is true that per engineer, successful SV firms do make a lot of money. But it is _really_ hard for me to imagine this class of people as "ignored and underpaid." FB, Google, etc are publicly traded companies, not co-ops and, as such, are under no obligation to pay any more than they do. Don't like it the terms? Don't sign the contract. They make it sound like they make you sign a contract with a gun at your head.

> A Facebook software engineer’s average starting salary is about $150,000 a year...But outside of San Francisco, it’s probably equivalent to around $50,000 a year.

This is just stupid. A _starting_ salary of 150k? Even if the equivalence they draw to 50k/yr elsewhere is correct this is a pretty good place to start. I made 95k starting out in SV and had plenty of money to burn.

This article is not rigorous and just bad.