This is the new normal in California: disclosure of salary ranges. We can see that Apple program managers make between $121,000 and $230,000, while Facebook’s parent company (Meta) workers make $253,000-$327,000 as directors of software engineering.
Salary transparency has arrived in Silicon Valley, under a new law that has come into effect requiring companies in California to disclose job salaries. Companies with over 15 employees must share salary range on job listings of all types. The pay transparency rule aims to address gender and racial pay gaps, and increase labor market competition for those groups. It also means tech outsiders can get an insight into what top tech companies pay their staff. According to some job listings posted this week, an Apple program manager in the augmented reality group is on $121,000-$230,000, while a director of software engineering at Meta gets $253,000-$327,000.
But the most revealing is Netflix with a salary range of $150k to $900k for Data Engineer (L5) – Games. With that range, I do not see how the disclosure helps.
- 7+ years of software/data engineering experience working with video game analytics (i.e you are familiar with how key metrics such as DAU, MAU and retention rates are computed in an ETL).
- Passionate about building intuitive data models and an expert in distributed data processing patterns.
- Highly proficient in at least one of these programming languages: Java, Python, or Scala.
- Comfortable with complex SQL.
- Expert in engineering data pipelines using big data technologies (Hive, Presto, Spark, Flink) on large-scale data sets demonstrated through years of experience.
- Conceptually familiar with AWS cloud resources (S3, EC2, RDS etc).
- Excel at taking vague requirements and crystallizing them into scalable data solutions.
- Excited about operating independently, demonstrating excellence, and learning new technologies and frameworks.
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At Netflix, we carefully consider a wide range of compensation factors to determine your personal top of market. We rely on market indicators to determine compensation and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to get it right. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary and will also be dependent on your location.The overall market range for roles in this area of Netflix is typically $150,000 – $900,000.
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