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Not just tech workers. 24 year old non-technical product managers at FAANG companies are demanding $190,000 salaries.

As a European I wish more FAANG companies started hiring software engineers remotely. The only American companies that have offered me remote jobs with FAANG tier salaries were cryptobro startups.

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Well, part of the deal for a lot of these salaries is that you work more hours than the EU allows.

And you can fire people more easily in usa

FAANG have many offices in Europe..

Do they pay European salaries in European offices? I imagine the answer to that question is, "yes." The appeal for a European to get an American FAANG position remotely is presumably to soak up some of that dramatically higher American tech salary. I'm not sure that's a reasonable expectation though, as most companies in my experience will adjust pay to scale to the employee's current location for remote roles.

Based on my personal experience, the answer is yes. Hired a lot of Europeans in London, Dublin, Munich, Zurich, Budapest and Lisbon over the last decade. Only Zurich came close to SV compensation levels.

You can try to do research for your location: https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-en...

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