Many big tech companies offer professional certification, for example, IBM Certified Data Engineer and Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer.

For instance, the highest-paid software engineer in the dataset was a level 7 employee, earning a base salary of $718,000. On the other hand, most of the software engineers listed reported base ...

The data reveals that Amazon, Google, and Meta pay entry-level engineers more on average than Apple and Microsoft. Amazon pays an average of $159,000, Google pays $184,000, and Meta pays $179,000.