I can tell you we are not paid more than Software Engineers, but that might be only my company. One startup asked me this. They gave me a very vague problem st

I can tell you we are not paid more than Software Engineers, but that might be only my company. One startup asked me this. They gave me a very vague problem statement, and in 2 days I had to find a couple of recent articles relevant to the problem and prepare a presentation explaining my solution and justifying my decisions.