I hope the reason you're being downvoted is that you mentioned E5 "salary" but you probably meant "compensation" which includes much more like bonus, initial gr

I hope the reason you're being downvoted is that you mentioned E5 "salary" but you probably meant "compensation" which includes much more like bonus, initial grant RSUs, refreshers etc. Either ways, I've always been met with some degree of rancor when people realize that some devs on the west coast make $$$ for doing stuff that isn't rocket science (ex: shoveling protos around). So the downvotes are not terribly surprising.