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No they are not lying. A senior software engineer at Google easily makes >200K in cash compensation (salary + bonus), not counting RSU. And around half the Goog
by ta_googler 10y ago
No they are not lying. A senior software engineer at Google easily makes >200K in cash compensation (salary + bonus), not counting RSU. And around half the Google engineering workforce is at that level or higher.
I won't be surprised to see similar or even higher numbers at FB / Linkedin / Netflix.
source: been a googler for >8 years
- cdavid 10y agoI suspect this is only in the bay (or maybe other "high value" areas) ? I never heard such figures in the UK for example in those companies (well, for FB/Google anyway, never heard of Linkedin/netflix).
- toephu2 10y agoYes this is the Bay Area only. Plus UK is known to have far lower salaries than the U.S. in any industry basically.
- beisner 10y agoFor Google and Facebook at least, those salaries hold throughout the US (I know for sure in SF, Seattle, Boston, Boulder, and NYC), and potentially all of North America.
- bsvalley 10y agoI've been a googler myself, a few make 200k base salary but it's still a small minority of the company. In your list, only Netflix will guarantee $200k minimum as an annual base salary for pretty much all their engineers. Why? Because first of all they only hire experienced engineers, and second of all, they don't offer RSU's, bonuses etc. It all comes into a single salary, unlike all the other companies in the Bay Area that talks about $250k-300k "hiring package", which doesn't mean anything... Again, a bonus is NOT part of the base salary. And a hiring package = base salary + annual bonus + sign on bonus + RSU's (4 year vesting period). A financial institute will only look at your base salary to calculate your income/debt ration.