Are you saying the average Qcom engineer makes 200K per year? Sounds a bit high to me, maybe I need to put in a resume.
Also, why are Indians not considered Asians, even though they come from the continent of Asia?[/quote]
I’m saying that including base+ RSU + bonus, $200k would be about average for someone probably Staff level or higher, which wouldn’t be out of line with what other companies are paying for someone with similar experience in years and work….which is probably also the same sort of extra benefits that QCOM is trying to cut that they just announced….But again, that was before all the cuts.
And I don’t know why Indians and Asians are classified differently, when you fill out the ethnicity bubbles, but it is what it is.[/quote]
I can see that for Staff level maybe, but certainly the vast majority of engineers would be making significantly less.
Of all the Qcom engineers what percentage do you think are H1B types? A significant amount or small minority?[/quote]
H1B’s and staff engineers are not mutually exclusive…Inf fact you would probably find more H1-B’s that are staff than non-H1-Bs. But I think an H1B senior engineer (1 level lower than staff) probably can pull in about $125-35k. with just a few years of experience. At least that’s what my tenants pulled in. But that was again with RSU and bonus.
Unlike a some shady contracting companies that exploit the H1B visas to bring in cheap labor, I know these bigger companies that do the direct employee hire do not really pay the H1B’s less than other people.
I know from experience when we hired H1-B’s, we paid them just as much as the non H1-B’s and in some cases, more, so they wouldn’t end up at our competitors. So they are just as likely to get the axe as anyone else when it comes to swinging the ax. Big companies have offshore offices, and whenever the bean counters start talking about cutting cost, that’s what they try to do: by moving/hiring more in the remote offices versus actually hiring H1-Bs and paying them US wages. In fact, in the sort of ironic twists, I have a lot of colleagues with H1-B that complain about why US companies continue to try to offshore stuff. It’s happening because growth is stale, and the company is entering “maintenance mode”.
