> If the average engineer could get a job at FAANG then they presumably would since their total comp would go up 2x. A lot of them don't actually know that. E

> If the average engineer could get a job at FAANG then they presumably would since their total comp would go up 2x. A lot of them don't actually know that. Every time someone posts one of those developer salary articles here, from levels.fyi or similar sites, there a long line of naysayers who just can't believe the numbers are real -- but they are real.