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Oddly, I just went from a director level position to staff engineer at a new company, and am getting paid 50% more. I feel like I won the lotto. Management was
by eweise 6y ago
Oddly, I just went from a director level position to staff engineer at a new company, and am getting paid 50% more. I feel like I won the lotto. Management was stressful and full of nepotism. The only positives were being a bit upstream in the decision making process. I do think its good to for ICs to get out of their comfort zone and take on some management tasks though. Its important as you become a senior engineer, to not just contribute to the code but to also help mentor the team, sell a technical vision and take responsibility for delivering the product as a whole.
- jwondrusch 6y agoWhat type of process did you go through for this transition? I recently stepped into a director level position and have been loving the management and vision-crafting process, but have been curious that if I ever choose to step back toward an IC role, what that looks like in terms of interviewing/retraining/etc.
- eweise 6y agoI sold myself back into an IC position by focusing on my domain knowledge and architecture skills which was still part of my director role. I think the higher pay is an exceptional case where they are paying more for my domain knowledge than my programming skills.
- bradlys 6y agoWhere is this? I find this hard to relate to in SV. I can't imagine a director ever getting paid 50% (or 1/3 - whatever the math is) less than a staff software engineer at the same company. Sounds more like you were going from a "director" level position at startup to staff at FAANG...