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I'm surprised that there remains so much disbelief regarding these figures. There are a plenty of people at large software companies in Silicon Valley who are p
by rrdharan 10y ago
I'm surprised that there remains so much disbelief regarding these figures. There are a plenty of people at large software companies in Silicon Valley who are paid well north of $300k.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Senior-Staff-Software-Engineer-Salaries-E9079_D_KO7,37.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Senior-Staff-Softwar...
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Dropbox-Engineer-Salaries-E415350_D_KO8,16.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Dropbox-Engineer-Salaries-E...
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Facebook-Staff-Software-Engineer-Salaries-E40772_D_KO9,32.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Facebook-Staff-Software-Eng...
- Swizec 10y agoGoogle has thousands of engineers. How many "senior staff software engineers"? "This estimate is based upon 18 Google Senior Staff Software Engineer salary reports" "This estimate is based upon 1 Dropbox Engineer salary report" "This estimate is based upon 1 Facebook Staff Software Engineer salary report" So we're looking at salaries of 20 engineers. There are how many thousand engineers in the Bay Area? I don't think your data is statistically significant. I'm not saying these people don't exist. I'm saying they're not as common as these companies would like us to believe.
- ryandrake 10y agoYea, I always understood those Super Senior Staff Software Engineer roles at these top companies are for the rare "I invented the TCP in TCP/IP" people, not the more common "third average software engineer from the left".
- vostok 10y agoThis is an incorrect understanding. I personally know someone at Google who is nowhere near "I invented the TCP in TCP/IP" and they make >$300k (but not much more) with just a few years of experience.