Tech companies have a reputation for treating their employees well – especially their engineers. Engineering talent is scarce, so companies are willing to pay big bucks to keep them happy. It probably goes without saying that there are many well-paying career opportunities in Computer Science and IT (Information Technology) in general. Competition for software engineers continues to accelerate, with salaries being an area employers compete aggressively on to win talent.So Software Engineer Salary is a hot topic.
Now the question is which companies pays their engineers the most? Don’t worry, we are here to help you..
The highest paying company isn’t your typical Apple, Google, or Facebook either.
here is a list of Top 5 companies with software engineering salary.
High Software Engineering Salary: Twitter
Average base salary: 124,863
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called “tweets”.
Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has more than 25 offices around the world.
A current software engineer there says:
Pros: “Good perks. Very smart people (being pre-ipo, twitter attracted a lot of super smart people). Lots of interesting work to do.”
Cons: “Surprisingly large number of ‘engineering managers,’ senior managers, directors and VPs for a company of this size. Slow moving.”
High Software Engineering Salary: Google
Average base salary: 127,143
Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. Most of its profits are derived from AdWords, an online advertising service that places advertising near the list of search results.
A current software engineer there says:
Pros: “A great company with a great history that still allows you to make contributions that can have significant impact. Awesome work culture.”
Cons: “I used to love this company and thought we contributed a great deal to help the industry and society, and that we could do no harm. Unfortunately, I don’t believe this about the company anymore, and I have recently lost a great deal of confidence in the current leadership team. The company has recently become run much more top down than the bottoms up nature of the years past.”
High Software Engineering Salary: Yahoo
Average base salary: 130,312
Yahoo Inc. (styled as Yahoo!) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It is globally known for its Web portal, search engine Yahoo Search, and related services, including Yahoo Directory, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Groups, Yahoo Answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports and its social media website. It is one of the most popular sites in the United States. According to news sources, roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo websites every month. Yahoo itself claims it attracts “more than half a billion consumers every month in more than 30 languages.
A current software engineer there says:
Pros: “The culture is something many other companies could learn from!”
Cons: “I don’t have really nothing to say here.”
High Software Engineering Salary: LinkedIn
Average base salary: $136,427
LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking service. Founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. In 2006, LinkedIn increased to 20 million members. As of March 2015, LinkedIn reports more than 364 million acquired users in more than 200 countries and territories.
A current software engineer there says:
Pros: “1. Excellent engineering culture 2. Daily work is very challenging and fun. A lot of new technologies and you can not even know all of their names. There are always things you can learn. 3. LinkedIn has a good business model. 4. People with different types of expertise (Engineering, Sales, Business, Analytics) can all have interesting things to work on.”
Cons: “Don’t have decent free breakfast and dinner. Only free lunch is included.”
High Software Engineering Salary: Juniper Networks
Average base salary: $159,990
Juniper Networks is a multinational corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California that develops and markets networking products. Its products include routers, switches, network management software, network security products and software-defined networking technology and the best paying in our software engineering salary list.
A current software engineer there says:
Pros: “Great talent. Good possibilities to make a difference in a competitive market.”
Cons: “Too much bureaucracy on managerial level.”
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