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They're only paying 80,000€ for a full stack dev and want the candidate to have a "portfolio of successful projects"

That's twice the average salary of an experienced "regular" software developer in France.

That’s ~$86,000 not bad at all imo and probably comes with other benefits as well. Not really sure how economical that is in the EU but it can’t be worse than the U.S where this is still pretty good compensation.

OpenAI is known to pay up to 10 times that. It's a different world.

$86k in Europe is good (about 90th percentile of earners in Germany), but not as fantastical as some salaries in the US. Plus, Paris is probably expensive.

Current OpenAI job postings top out at $385,000 for full stack engineers which is 98th percentile in the US (and less for San Francisco).

The €80k is the start of the Mistral salary range. €100k is the top, which would put you in the top 1% of earners in France.

The $385k is base salary, not total comp, right?

I'm in Europe and imo it's bad. The position is London/Paris and it's definitely not enough to live comfortably in London. It's okay for a run of the mill full stack position but at what could be considered the hottest sector in the world right now? It's not enough.

It's France, that's quite a high salary there.

It’s not enough to rent a 2 bedroom flat in paris but ok

80K is kinda high for Europe, I bet there are lots of people applying

Welcome to Europe

Welcome to Europe.

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