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Who is paying more than Amazon and Google right now? Investment banks, maybe?

• free652 5y ago
  Quants: Citadel and Jane Street.
  • bimboler38 5y ago
    GL getting in. The interviews are arguably harder than that of FAANG.
• tfehring 5y ago
  https://levels.fyi/2021 https://levels.fyi/2021 Also my impression is that Amazon’s effective comp is significantly below the headline number because they heavily backload RSUs and they burn out or fire so many people in the first couple years.
  • oangemangut 5y ago
    usually the signing bonus they offer for years 1 and 2 makes up for the backloaded RSU schedule... at least that's mostly how my offer worked circa 2019
• decafninja 5y ago
  Haha, investment banks do not pay SWEs well at all (outside of certain rare elite niche roles anyways). You'll be lucky to make half the compensation a FAANG engineer makes at a typical investment bank while always being treated as a second class cost center employee. Amongst the FAANG companies, my understanding for compensation is: Netflix, Facebook > Google > Apple, Amazon ...adding in the MULA companies, believe Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb are towards the upper end of the spectrum while Microsoft is towards the lower. Correct me if I'm wrong.