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> This is not true. At FAANG companies and Microsoft, the total compensation bands for levels at or above "Senior SWE", "Senior SDE" are really wide. Ehh, not
by joshuamorton 7y ago
> This is not true. At FAANG companies and Microsoft, the total compensation bands for levels at or above "Senior SWE", "Senior SDE" are really wide.
Ehh, not really. Up to the director level (well above senior), if you give me someone's level and last two performance evals, I can probably tell you their TC to within 5%. There's certainly a wide variance within senior and above levels, but it's not as bonus based as you suggest, and sustained high performance will often (although not always) lead to promotions.
It's not like there are two senior SWEs with one making 2x what the other does. At least not at Amazon, M, or G. Since netflix doesn't have levels, that's possible, and my understanding is facebook has huge bonuses on occasion, but I'm also pretty sure you'll just end up getting promoted if you get too many of those.
- fierro 7y agohelllll no this is 100% not true. I worked at Google, and there is an internal spreadsheet with compensation that is contributed to on a voluntary basis, and has n=1000+ for many levels. The variance is far greater than 5%. *for Googlers, you can find this at go/salarycomp or something like that, I can't remember
- joshuamorton 7y agoI'm well aware of it. It doesn't include performance ratings. Which I mentioned ;)
- throwaway43892 7y agoWell, yeah - if you control for performance ratings, then pay is normally similar. The pay bands are wide due to pay for performance. Within a given level, employees with really high performance will be paid much more than those with average performance. At the FAANG company I'm familiar with, there are definitely "Senior SDEs" making ~double the average "Senior SDE" comp, because they consistently get really high performance ratings.