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Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure starting salaries at GS and other banks are around $80-90k + a small bonus (10-20%?). Not bad, but definitely less than Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and other major tech companies. So if you're a software engineer going for the money, GS isn't really the place to be.

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> So if you're a software engineer going for the money, GS isn't really the place to be.

Over the long term, financial services wins. The compensation curve is much steeper than most tech firms.

GS in particular pays crap wages according to salar.ly.

That's because you're looking at the wrong job title. For experienced engineers look at Vice President and Senior Vice President.

I'm well aware of the "everybody's a VP" system at Goldman. Those are the titles I'm looking at.

Do the stats include bonus? If you're a Goldman VP then your salary might be mediocre but your bonus will be significant

Salar.ly gets it's data from foreign worker visa applications how representative of the wider work force can that possibly be?

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