Yes, I'm aware. The comment was mostly for the benefit of other readers, particularly those who weren't familiar with FANG compensation policies and might have

Yes, I'm aware. The comment was mostly for the benefit of other readers, particularly those who weren't familiar with FANG compensation policies and might have been misled into thinking that your experience was representative. Such engineers might have made a mistake costing them millions of dollars of lifetime income on that basis. To reiterate: if you are interviewing for a software engineering role with a FANG company for a role in California, you can expect the following TC pay bands: Entry-level (L3 @ G/F, L4 @ Amzn): $140-180k Mid-level (L4 @ G/F, L5 @ Amzn): $200-280k (Amzn might have a lower floor, but not often) Senior (L5 @ G/F, L6 @ Amzn): $300-400k Staff (L6 @ G/F, L7 @ Amzn, called Principal): $450-650+ As always, there will be some exceptions. Exceptions at the bottom will tend to be web dev/full-stack roles, which at most places have slightly lower pay bands. ML roles, contrariwise, will tend to skew higher... (at least, adjusted for experience level). I could maybe believe it, if, out of the thousands (tens of thousands?) of engineers hired at mid-level to work at Bay Area G/F/A offices in the last couple years, a few of them were offered $110k TC. It'd still require some pretty substantial deviations from their usual process, but it's imaginable. I cannot imagine that happening for someone offered a senior+ role. Like, literally, I cannot imagine what set of organizational and procedural failures would have to align for that outcome to occur. It's not worth factoring into one's calculations when deciding whether or not to spend time applying to and studying for FANG interviews.