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> such compensation is reasonably possible to a moderately competent software developer working for big companies in the United States The author made $625k in
by ac29 5y ago
> such compensation is reasonably possible to a moderately competent software developer working for big companies in the United States
The author made $625k in compensation this year. Even for large US tech companies, that's far above the "moderately competent" level. According to levels.fyi, this is approximately what a Principal SWE makes at Amazon, the third highest compensation level listed.
- crakhamster01 5y agoMy guess would be a higher end SDE3/L6 - I believe Amazon backloads their vesting schedule so the jump seems reasonable?
- giantg2 5y agoRational, maybe. Reasonable, not from my perspective.
- joshuamorton 5y agoYou're looking at take-home, while levels.fyi shows granted amounts. AMZN and GOOG have both ~tripled since early 2018, so if you joined with a large stock grant (and as the other user mentioned, amazon's are backloaded), you'd be getting 3x the modelled amount. So someone who joined with a 160K salary and 400K stock grant at Amazon, which is modelled compensation of just a bit over 250K would take home 160K + .4 * 400K * 3 = 640K this year. That translates to the high side of L5 or low side of L6 at amazon, which is to say well within the "Senior" band.