I know a SWE joining a small startup whose base salary is 120k. This person is a new grad and doesn't have a CS degree. So, yeah... 120k is on the low side. I

I know a SWE joining a small startup whose base salary is 120k. This person is a new grad and doesn't have a CS degree. So, yeah... 120k is on the low side. I imagine they're averaging a bunch of different jobs together that aren't actually all software engineers.