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If a company is doing its job correctly, a 10x engineer should not be leveled the same as a 1x engineer. (It's more complicated than that but, y'know.)

• loeg 5y ago
  Yeah, but you have to go up quite a few levels to make 10x the pay. E.g., a Google L5 makes (ballpark) $360k. An L8 makes (ballpark) $1M. That's only 3x higher, and you probably need a lot more than 10x impact to go L5 -> L8. An L4 makes $270k, still within ~1/4 of an L8. L3s are paid almost 200k, which is still ~1/5 of an L8. I don't know what L9s or 10s are paid; it's probably highly variable and the total number are probably a handful.
  • johnhowardstein 5y ago
    Advancement at Google is tied heavily to being on the right projects to the extent that I think you're way overselling the extent to which the higher levels will be better at their jobs.
    • loeg 5y ago
      That seems plausible; I don’t work there. I think that further supports the argument that “10x engineers” are not paid 10x.
• 8note 5y ago
  if the company is doing its job correctly, its paying the 10x engineer even less than the 1x engineer. if the engineer is doing their job correctly, they are negotiating to be paid more than tne 1x
  • soperj 5y ago
    that's one way to get a lot of 1x engineers...
  • cutemonster 5y ago
    > paying the 10x engineer even less than the 1x engineer Why is that a good idea? Isn't there a risk that s/he will then quit?