I think people overestimate the degree of salary differential between tech employees in the same nation but different offices/working remotely/etc. There are strong process/internal fairness/social reasons to not adjust as aggressively as a cost of living calculator suggests.
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“How do you feel about that?” I’m a capitalist. If a firm doesn’t metabolize engineering brainsweat as efficiently as the best software firms in world I recommend changing that, opening the hiring window, building a better career ladder than competitors have, or doing without.
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FAANG-alike companies are strip mining the Midwest. Know a significant number of people that moved from Kentucky to SV/Seattle or remote in the last ~year Total comp is 2x-3x to “just” be a senior, no management responsibilities
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Most of my Midwestern college class ended up leaving the Midwest. The brain drain is terrifying to say the least.
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