On Oct 19, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
When I talked about this last year with the Google people, they
said that
they still believed that you got more dollars >for your money hiring
engineers in Mountain View than in Durham or Austin.
They could be wrong, but I wouldn't lay long odds on it...
I'm curious. Do they pay starting engineers $250k/year, and still
think
that Berkley and Stanford are so much better than every other
engineering
school in the nation that it's worth it? If they don't pay that
kind of
money, how can a engineer have a house and family?
They probably don't pay them that kind of money: I know, because I have
hired experienced engineers for much less than that. I make much less
than
that with 20-some years experience. Then again, maybe I'm just a really
bad negotiator.
I paid half what my house is worth, but with refinancing and upgrades
over
the years, my mortgage is above 3/4 of the current Zillow estimated
value
of the property, so I can tell you that you can afford to live here on
far,
far less than $250K/year. You just have to understand that you'll
accumulate
debt doing so :-(.
Dave
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