#4 Google

Google, the search giant comes at the fourth position in the list by paying their software engineers an annual base salary of $127,143. Founded in 1988 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google is one of the most visited website in the entire world. It is estimated that Google processes one billion search requests on a daily basis and produces more than 24 petabyes of user-generated data each day. Handling this much data and traffic is a big technical challenge, and Google knows how to hunt for the talents— a fat pay

#5 Twitter

The popular social networking and micro blogging website, Twitter occupies the fifth rank in the list. Founded in March of 2006, it has more than 500 million registered users, and has now emerged as a heavily visited websites in the world. The site handles 340 million new tweets per day and 1.6 billion search queries. They try to get best experts with good technological knowledge by paying an average annual base salary of $124,863.

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