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I'm not sure how to answer the question. How would you answer the equivalent question about finance? It's not like working in finance guarantees you 7 figures.
by vostok 9y ago
I'm not sure how to answer the question. How would you answer the equivalent question about finance? It's not like working in finance guarantees you 7 figures. I know plenty of people on both the engineering side and the trading side who never made more than 2-300k.
If you want specific examples from tech then the Waymo article from a while back is helpful, but that doesn't mean that you need to work at Waymo or Google to get there, although a large portion of those roles are at Google-tier companies.
Your average agency will not be hiring pure developers and paying them 7 figures, although they might to someone who is generating revenue and bringing in enough business to justify it.
- vasilipupkin 9y agothe op made a claim so I am assuming the op knows how to answer this question. The claim is that many more engineers make 7 figures in tech than in finance. My question, specifically, is, what fraction of engineers in tech make 7 figures, let's say what fraction of engineers with 10 years experience and what are the types of positions at those google tier companies that pay this much. I think this is pretty specific
- vostok 9y agoMy comment was specifically about the "I mean what sort of position do you need to have to get there?" part of your question. > My question, specifically, is, what fraction of engineers in tech make 7 figures I doubt that OP meant that they literally have data showing that it's 1-5%. That's a wide enough range that it's meaningless. I suspect the meaning was more "way above average, but reasonably possible".
- vasilipupkin 9y agoI appreciate the insights but you are not in any way answering my very specific question