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Honest question since I'm not familiar with the area - who is making 400k at Microsoft or Facebook? Not the typical mid-level software engineer, I'd assume. Are
by jonmb 8y ago
Honest question since I'm not familiar with the area - who is making 400k at Microsoft or Facebook? Not the typical mid-level software engineer, I'd assume. Are these product leads or head engineers making the 400k?
- dunpeal 8y agoThese numbers are realistic for any senior engineer working there for over 3-4 years.
- jonmb 8y agoAre these engineers at Facebook/Google/etc. working the typical 40 hour work week or more like 60-80?
- JeremyBanks 8y agoDepends whether you count the half of their workday that is spent on a bus.
- rconti 8y agoThat's optional, for folks who WANT to commute (eg, either want a big house in BFE, or want to live the city life, or whatever). If you want a short commute, it's yours -- if you live in the city, work for one of the many tech companies up there. If you want to work at FB, come be my neighbor and walk to work, I live in a great walkable neighborhood <2mi from FBHQ.
- faang_emp_1 8y agoObviously a throwaway account, but I work at Facebook, on an infrastructure team. I average ~45 hours/week, except for the week I'm oncall, which is about every three months. I probably work 60 hours that week. I get in early (7:30am) and leave early (3 or 3:30), and sometimes I'll review diffs at night, but normally my laptop stays in my trunk when I'm at home. I work hard when I'm at work, and really focus. I don't do a lot of the extra-curricular stuff that you can easily spend your time on. I'm an L6 and last year earned just north $450K with decent performance reviews. I have damn near a million dollars in unvested $FB RSUs, too, so there's almost no chance I'm going to leave for anywhere that won't match that with equally liquid public shares. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- BadassFractal 8y agoWould you mind sharing how long you've been working there and your level of seniority? Would be super interesting to know for at least my reference.
- sheeshkebab 8y agoMy guess 6 to 10 years
- jonmb 8y agoThanks for the response. Sometimes I get the impression that engineers are killing themselves doing nothing but work with occasional sleep, so it's good to hear you're around 45 hours.
- freeone3000 8y ago400k is reasonable for total comp after a few years of experience. Note that total comp includes a bunch of stuff that's technically discretionary, like your annual bonus, and a bunch of stuff that's paid out but not really cashable, like meals and health insurance. Your pre-tax cash, sans benefits, is probably closer to $200k.
- infinite8s 8y agoPeople don't usually include health insurance and free meals when they think about their total comp.
- freeone3000 8y agoIf it goes on my taxes, it's part of comp.
- umanwizard 8y agoNobody counts free meals as part of their total comp.
- rgossiaux 8y agoThere's some data about this on Blind for Google that seems pretty solid: https://www.teamblind.com/article/google-engineer---total-compensation-in-us---ultimate-post-jYcrij5X https://www.teamblind.com/article/google-engineer---total-co... For Google, it looks like 90% of L6 engineers and a single-digit percentage of L5 engineers are at this number. So yes, not your typical mid-level engineer (many/most engineers plateau at L5).