I work with a bunch of senior engineers making 400-600k, I would say there isnt a huge difference between them and ones making 175k at a startup/non tech busine

I work with a bunch of senior engineers making 400-600k, I would say there isnt a huge difference between them and ones making 175k at a startup/non tech business. The biggest thing is comfort with scale, and high scale thinking. But its nothing thats difficult, just something to learn. If anything, I have seen much higher proficiency at startups where delivering across the stack is critical. Really, the interview process is segmenting engineers in ways that dont correlate with job performance (though there definitely is some signal)