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Some ICs at top tech companies get paid much, much more than $600k.
by sophiebits 7y ago
Some ICs at top tech companies get paid much, much more than $600k.
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- bradleyjg 7y agoIf you think you have a reasonable chance to become a Google Fellow or equivalent, then by all means ignore everything I’m saying here.
- seattle_spring 7y ago600k is staff level TC, not even close to fellow.
- opportune 7y agoOh really, I guess I was misinformed. Figured that was closer to 500-600. I hadn’t heard of anything well above $700k or so for positions like “Senior Staff”
- joshuamorton 7y agoWell the other piece is that after senior staff there's distinguished and principal, and then fellow.
- bradleyjg 7y agoThere are somewhere around 3.5-4 million software engineers in the US. What percent would you say will make $600k TC or more this year?
- seattle_spring 7y agoI was responding directly to a comment referring to Staff Google engineers. So in response to your goalpost moving question, I guess the percent would be (total number of staff engineers or higher at Google) / (your random estimate of the total engineering population)
- bradleyjg 7y agoI’m sure we are all very impressed by your insider knowledge of the details of a tiny portion of the industry irrelevant to most engineers. For the rest of us Google Fellow or equivalent is a reasonable way to sum up the entire niche.
- seattle_spring 7y agoIt's not equivalent, unless you think that getting a job at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, or any other reasonably large west-coast company is a "niche" that's completely out of reach for you. "Staff" is not some unattainable level that only a few people per company are lucky enough to break into.