> It seems like software industry needs a bonus system for people who are eager to lean into their work, but struggle to see the reason to when it’s just anothe

> It seems like software industry needs a bonus system for people who are eager to lean into their work, but struggle to see the reason to when it’s just another company that will do nothing about it. This is essentially how the bonus system works at the big software companies. People with the same title might make roughly the same salary, but have very different stock compensation, which gets updated every year based on performance and can be much larger than the base salary. It's why you see such a wide range of numbers on sites like levels.fyi (for example $300K to $900K for a staff engineer at Google). https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engineer/L6/ https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi...