> Let's be generous and say there's about a dozen or so companies that routinely pay engineers that well You aren't being generous. The amount of companies pay

> Let's be generous and say there's about a dozen or so companies that routinely pay engineers that well You aren't being generous. The amount of companies paying people that well is on the order of dozens, maybe even 100. Every single FAANG company, every single unicorn, all hedge funds, and a few successful non-unicorn company based out of SF and the Bay Area.