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> Fun fact for you - if I get promoted this year at Amazon to L5, I'll _still_ make less than a new grad at Google. Yet you still make more than what the vast
by benhurmarcel 6y ago
> Fun fact for you - if I get promoted this year at Amazon to L5, I'll _still_ make less than a new grad at Google.
Yet you still make more than what the vast majority of engineers in western Europe will ever make in their whole career. And that's still only looking at the most developed countries.
The job market isn't fair. No use getting burnt over that.
- scarface74 6y agoHe makes far more than The vast majority of developers in the US.
- lowiqengineer 6y agoI know several people making $350k at companies like Lyft two years out of undergrad.
- scarface74 6y agoThat doesn’t negate my point that you still make more than most developers in the US outside of the HN SV bubble writing CRUD apps or bespoke internal apps that will never see the light of day outside of the company. Go to salary.com and pick any major city not on the west coast.
- lowiqengineer 6y agoThe person in question works on deployment tools at Lyft, which is the definition of an internal tool though.