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In my experience https://www.levels.fyi https://www.levels.fyi provides much better information than random tweets. Not everyone works for a FAANG, but it's us

In my experience https://www.levels.fyi https://www.levels.fyi provides much better information than random tweets. Not everyone works for a FAANG, but it's useful to know what their influence is in the market.

bootlooped 7y ago
I wish there were just a little better filtering/sorting on their data. I want to know what people with my years of experience, in my metro area, in my specialization are making. You can kind of get some of that info, in certain forms. If their data (the data that is already publicly viewable on their website) were in a relational database I could write a query in about 60 seconds to pluck out what I want to know.
- SpicyLemonZest 7y ago
  That level of breakdown would probably make deanonymization too easy.
  - sangnoir 7y ago
    They could set a minimum number of people in the results to be > $THRESHOLD or you'd get "not enough data". I believe Facebook ended up doing something similar after a college student targeted his room mate with a number of overly-specific FB ads, wrote about it, and the story went viral (before 2016 elections)
  - bootlooped 7y ago
    https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html You can already view individual data points. So to expand on the shortcomings: I can filter by metro area and years of experience. But the result is just the table of data points. The only sortable column is total compensation. There is no aggregate data. What I really want to see is the histogram chart from the link below, but with the filtering results applied to it. It seems like the only thing you can do with the histogram they give you is select metro location. https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/San-Francisco-Bay-Area/ https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/San-Franci...
- joshspankit 7y ago
  Sounds like the actual issue here is psychological (which, no judgements, is very common). If you really wanted that data you could write (or have someone write if you prefer) a tool that pulls the data in to a relational database.

bootlooped 7y ago

I wish there were just a little better filtering/sorting on their data. I want to know what people with my years of experience, in my metro area, in my specialization are making. You can kind of get some of that info, in certain forms. If their data (the data that is already publicly viewable on their website) were in a relational database I could write a query in about 60 seconds to pluck out what I want to know.

SpicyLemonZest 7y ago
That level of breakdown would probably make deanonymization too easy.
- sangnoir 7y ago
  They could set a minimum number of people in the results to be > $THRESHOLD or you'd get "not enough data". I believe Facebook ended up doing something similar after a college student targeted his room mate with a number of overly-specific FB ads, wrote about it, and the story went viral (before 2016 elections)
- bootlooped 7y ago
  https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html You can already view individual data points. So to expand on the shortcomings: I can filter by metro area and years of experience. But the result is just the table of data points. The only sortable column is total compensation. There is no aggregate data. What I really want to see is the histogram chart from the link below, but with the filtering results applied to it. It seems like the only thing you can do with the histogram they give you is select metro location. https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/San-Francisco-Bay-Area/ https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/San-Franci...
joshspankit 7y ago
Sounds like the actual issue here is psychological (which, no judgements, is very common). If you really wanted that data you could write (or have someone write if you prefer) a tool that pulls the data in to a relational database.