Top male engineers at Google make nearly 20% more than their female peers

[bpicolo]

Post has so many disclaimers that the title is mostly click bait.

[fein]

*Senior software engineers

Also there is a 2 year experience gap between female and male devs in that position.

Low level female software engineers at Google are actually paid more than their male counterparts.

However, none of this matters at all, as we have no clue what each employee's output is in comparison to eachother.

[bluthru]

>Low level female software engineers at Google are actually paid more than their male counterparts.

Why is this?

[humancontact]

>The male senior software engineer at Google has, on average, nearly a decade of experience compared to just 7.6 years for women with the same title.

Click bait.

[jchendy]

Does anybody know why Google and Amazon both have fewer years of experience for women in the senior roles? Or maybe it's just an artifact of the small amount of data for women engineers (13 and 14 reports at Amazon and Google respectively).

[aapje]

Needed to point this out because it relates to this topic. Every article I read about male/female worker ratio or ethnicity diversity ignores to dive into the aspect of working skills. Why should a company be enforced by law (more countries are starting to do this) to hire someone less qualified, only to please politicians?

[mpweiher]

Misleading headline.

In general, salaries roughly reflect experience. Where there are deviations, they go both ways. For example, the more junior engineers at Google made more than their male counterparts despite less experience.

[bluedino]

Is this offset at all by the fact that Google employs some incredibly famous male engineers, which there are far, far more of than famous female engineers?

[votingprawn]

Top quality reporting. "Senior engineer with 20% more experience receives 20% higher salary"

[hessenwolf]

On that note, what is the deal with Google HR cold-calling, inviting to apply, and then insisting on a 45 minute brain-teaser before even giving a chance to check if the job and team really fits?

Anyone else have this?

They've approached me twice now, through linkedin or whatever, and just annoyed me.

Manners would be a fine thing.