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I’d love to hear about those US based companies paying EU based ICs $200k / year and for the respective position to not be a beyond-senior-contributor thing (so

I’d love to hear about those US based companies paying EU based ICs $200k / year and for the respective position to not be a beyond-senior-contributor thing (so maybe 0.0001% of jobs out there).

oblio 5y ago
Switzerland, London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Munich, Luxembourg FAANG.
- disgruntledphd2 5y ago
  Without stock appreciation, I don't see that in Dublin. Like, a friend recently got a FAANG offer for senior IC, which netted out at about 150k total compensation, which is far off from 200k. You'd be looking at Staff (or years of stock appreciation) to hit 200k TC, which is a lot lower than one would expect in the US.
  - comp_throw7 5y ago
    Anyone can go look at compensation data for Google, Facebook, and Amazon on levels.fyi, filtering on "Ireland", and see that every single data point for senior engineers is 200k+.
    - rad_gruchalski 5y ago
      Out of 310 rows, 42 are $200k+. Not that many.
      - disgruntledphd2 5y ago
        To be fair, I was looking at the numbers in Euros (which is the most relevant to me), while I suspect other people are looking in dollars. It does appear that $200k is achievable in Dublin, Approximately $150k seems a lot more likely though. Clearly, I need to give up on DS and become a software engineer. I suppose I could get a leetcode subscription and start back reading Knuth again ;)
      - comp_throw7 5y ago
        If you filter all available data points to just those located in Ireland, you get 310. I was speaking specifically of senior engineers at Google, Facebook, and Amazon (which are the only FAANGs to have meaningful presence in Ireland), because that was the context I was replying to.
- rad_gruchalski 5y ago
  At $200k+ for individual contributor? But it is probably effectively 0.0001% of the jobs across the EU zone.
  - oblio 5y ago
    That was my point if you read my comments again. US companies in Europe pay that much, but there are only a handful of jobs (let's say 0.01% of jobs), and outside of US companies you can't even find that. Outside of US companies you need to be, as I called it "beyond-senior-level-individual-contributor", i.e. a god in your field to reach that. So you have to add 2 more zeroes after the dot, 0.0001%. They're both even rarer and also <<super>> hard to get.

I’d love to hear about those US based companies paying EU based ICs $200k / year and for the respective position to not be a beyond-senior-contributor thing (so maybe 0.0001% of jobs out there).

oblio 5y ago

Switzerland, London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Munich, Luxembourg FAANG.

disgruntledphd2 5y ago
Without stock appreciation, I don't see that in Dublin. Like, a friend recently got a FAANG offer for senior IC, which netted out at about 150k total compensation, which is far off from 200k. You'd be looking at Staff (or years of stock appreciation) to hit 200k TC, which is a lot lower than one would expect in the US.
- comp_throw7 5y ago
  Anyone can go look at compensation data for Google, Facebook, and Amazon on levels.fyi, filtering on "Ireland", and see that every single data point for senior engineers is 200k+.
  - rad_gruchalski 5y ago
    Out of 310 rows, 42 are $200k+. Not that many.
    - disgruntledphd2 5y ago
      To be fair, I was looking at the numbers in Euros (which is the most relevant to me), while I suspect other people are looking in dollars. It does appear that $200k is achievable in Dublin, Approximately $150k seems a lot more likely though. Clearly, I need to give up on DS and become a software engineer. I suppose I could get a leetcode subscription and start back reading Knuth again ;)
    - comp_throw7 5y ago
      If you filter all available data points to just those located in Ireland, you get 310. I was speaking specifically of senior engineers at Google, Facebook, and Amazon (which are the only FAANGs to have meaningful presence in Ireland), because that was the context I was replying to.
rad_gruchalski 5y ago
At $200k+ for individual contributor? But it is probably effectively 0.0001% of the jobs across the EU zone.
- oblio 5y ago
  That was my point if you read my comments again. US companies in Europe pay that much, but there are only a handful of jobs (let's say 0.01% of jobs), and outside of US companies you can't even find that. Outside of US companies you need to be, as I called it "beyond-senior-level-individual-contributor", i.e. a god in your field to reach that. So you have to add 2 more zeroes after the dot, 0.0001%. They're both even rarer and also <<super>> hard to get.