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A quick search says that netflix has ~9,400 developers, and they pay ~500k to start. Even if we say that half of their developers are international and not bein
by mucle6 5y ago
A quick search says that netflix has ~9,400 developers, and they pay ~500k to start. Even if we say that half of their developers are international and not being paid that much, over half of your expected number is seen in one company.
levels.fyi shows that l4's on average at Google make ~270k and ~279k at Facebook.
Even if we say only half of employees at Google and Facebook are l4+, and half of those are in America that goes far far over 10k people . This doesn't talk about hedge funds, or even other tech companies.
I think we should expect that there are at least 100k developers in America making ~300k+
That said I think your premise of only 1M SWEs is off
https://goremotely.net/blog/how-many-software-engineers-are-there/ https://goremotely.net/blog/how-many-software-engineers-are-...
- disambiguation 5y agoHaha wow I was way off, 4.4M is pretty mind boggling, exactly the data I was looking for thanks for sharing! Though I still stand by the rest of what I said. And funny you should mention netflix after what happened to their stock last week :)
- mucle6 5y agoOh my! I didn't know about their stock. I was thinking about working there and choosing to do 100% of compensation in stock... I guess if I were to do that, now is a good time