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Stripe recently offered $550k to a generalist backend developer who is a dear friend of mine, with about 7 years of experience. Another close friend joined Goo
by deanmoriarty 5y ago
Stripe recently offered $550k to a generalist backend developer who is a dear friend of mine, with about 7 years of experience.
Another close friend joined Google recently as a generalist UI developer for $490k. 6 years of experience.
Last FAANG offer I personally got was from Facebook a couple years ago, for an SRE role at $450k (believe it was top of E5 band).
My current comp at a hedge fund is > $1M/y, as a tech lead working in infra SWE. Would prefer not to reveal my current employer.
https://www.levels.fyi https://www.levels.fyi is pretty accurate in my experience, maybe slightly pessimistic because offers have really picked up over the past year or so (not counting equity appreciation, I’m talking about entering offer).
- 71a54xd 5y agoThat's incredible! Curious what kind of skillset / velocity you would define as "average engineer"? I consider myself "average" but I've only been working for about two years and have no clue how I'd start to fetch salaries like that. However, on the opposite coast in NYC.
- deanmoriarty 5y agoBy average I mean average, so you’re probably already good enough! After two years it’ll be a stretch to get a massive comp like that, but you can easily get close to $300k total comp now at a tech company, and maybe $400k at a hedge fund. My suggestion is to apply and interview at both and see what you get. I am always very active in these threads because I want fellow SWEs to milk opportunities while they are there, one day the market might turn against us so it’s important to make bank in the meantime.
- 71a54xd 5y agoI definitely need to sharpen up my interview skills, regarding the leetcode aspect at least. But thanks for the encouragement!