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The estimation algorithm doesn't seem to perform very well on outliers. I tried "senior software engineer" for my company in San Francisco and the salary estima
by lhorie 5y ago
The estimation algorithm doesn't seem to perform very well on outliers. I tried "senior software engineer" for my company in San Francisco and the salary estimate came out as half of what levels.fyi would've reported (never mind total comp).
Unfortunately I don't have a good gauge for other job types and in other locations, so I can't speak for how accurate the estimates for those seem to be.
- jaumes 5y agoAppreciate the feedback lhorie! Yes, when the result has very few samples (or none) the estimation can be very unreliable sometimes. I guess we should be careful in such cases, better explaining to the user that the estimation is based on a very small number of samples, so not reliable.