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That's not what it looks like on levels.fyi. It's regularly: "SDE 1, 110k + 75k stock options", and then levels.fyi will declare that 185, not 110 + 0, 112 + 38
by t-writescode 5y ago
That's not what it looks like on levels.fyi. It's regularly:
"SDE 1, 110k + 75k stock options", and then levels.fyi will declare that 185, not 110 + 0, 112 + 38, 115 + 19, 120 + 19
edit: and then people will come on here and say "look! Brand new Google employees make 200k!"
- closeparen 5y agoThat is incorrect, the stock figure on levels.fyi is per year. It does average out over the grant though, ignoring uneven vesting schedules.
- joshuamorton 5y agoLevels FYI doesn't usually do that. Looking at how they handle Google, for example they show base|annual stock|signing bonus. So when you see 130K base + 33K stock, that was a grant of 130K vesting over 4 years. And then with signing and annual bonus of ~20K, that person is in fact making 200K starting (although the median is probably a bit lower for a completely new employee). On the other hand, people often forget about refreshes when looking at these things. And while a refresh grant won't be as large as the initial grant, they do make the overall comp significantly larger.