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Levels.fyi is basically spot-on for my company, despite it having a relatively small # of reports, and is also accurate for friends of mine who work at larger c
by comp_throw7 6y ago
Levels.fyi is basically spot-on for my company, despite it having a relatively small # of reports, and is also accurate for friends of mine who work at larger companies (FAANG). But, as another reply said, some places will have vastly different pay scales for "similar roles" to SWE - for example, it's known that Facebook pays Data Engineers less than Software Engineers at the same level (mostly by giving them fewer RSUs).
If anything, I would say Levels.fyi underrepresents average total comp for many of the listed companies, because:
1) they don't take into account refreshers, where given, and
2) they don't take into account stock growth (which, yes, is not guaranteed, but it wouldn't be _unreasonable_ from a perspective of estimating Expected Value to assume whatever RSUs you get will track overall market growth, just with more volatility)
- JMTQp8lwXL 6y agoLevels should probably have a way of filtering submissions from employees with 0 YOE and 1+, 3+ YOE, as you mention, RSU value can double. So another identically leveled SWE could be making double you, just based off the stock appreciation. Naturally, one would expect the company to offer a package with half as many RSUs after share price doubles. Since you always enter a company with 0 YOE at that company (or at least, a clean slate of RSU tranches), the data points of employees who 'got in' early aren't relevant to an offer you might receive.
- comp_throw7 6y agoAgreed that that functionality would be helpful, though I haven't noticed a huge number of offers with details that would indicate "stock growth" rather than "initial offer + raises". They're there, but they're usually easy to pick out because they're way out of band. Might affect things on the margin, I suppose.
- zuhayeer 6y agoHi, I’m one of the creators of Levels.fyi and I just wanted to mention that we actually do have this feature. You can filter our compensation table by # of years of experience or years spent at the company by using the filters next to the search. https://levels.fyi/comp.html?showFilters https://levels.fyi/comp.html?showFilters This is also available on our level specific pages, for example for Google L3: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engineer/L3/ https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi... Though I do agree it would be really nice to have this reflected in our visuals or aggregates where possible.
- comp_throw7 6y agoHey, big fan of your work :) Love the new reporting feature, way less friction than sending an email.