I hire engineers at a large Bay Area tech company, and this is way off. According to https://levels.fyi https://levels.fyi, even a Senior SWE at Google pays ~$3

I hire engineers at a large Bay Area tech company, and this is way off. According to https://levels.fyi https://levels.fyi, even a Senior SWE at Google pays ~$343k annually including stock. And that’s a FAANG salary. The majority of firms are not paying that.