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> $300k, $400k+ a year Amazon, Facebook, Google? Those are hard salaries to get in my experience. I'm reasonably well respected in my field; attending conferen
by haskellandchill 9y ago
> $300k, $400k+ a year
Amazon, Facebook, Google? Those are hard salaries to get in my experience. I'm reasonably well respected in my field; attending conferences, speaking, leading meetups, and tirelessly researching computer science in my free time. Can't get a job at those 3, but going to try and take the hedge fund route I guess (I'm in NYC).
- newobj 9y agoIn my head financial stuff is harder to get into than BigCo's... :) Why do you say you /can't/ get a job at those companies?
- user5994461 9y agoIt's all about location. Web is the west coast while finance is the east coast.
- newobj 9y agoLet me put it this way, people that came to BigCo's from FinCo's in my experience (I mean, trading/quant, not banking software) generally were 90th percentile+ performers at BigCo's. Don't know about the other direction.
- user5994461 9y agoIt's the same in both directions. It's very visible in London where all companies are in the same locations and people transfer back and forth.
- haskellandchill 9y agoWhen I pass the tech interview I fail leadership, when I pass the leadership I fail tech. Kind of amusing. Amazon and Facebook are still interested in me but I'm not interested in studying algorithms for them again for a while. I like studying algorithms but am more interested in specific algorithms at the moment, not random undergraduate ones. Google has me on the 3 strikes list.
- gdilla 9y agoThat's total comp. Salaries top out at what you'd expect. It's bonuses, stock grants and discounted stock purchase programs that can push you up there.
- newobj 9y agoThe lower half of that range is base.