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Considering Google/Facebook your “peers” is a common mistake people at MSFT make when they complain about comp. MSFT targets 67 percentile pay (which is actuall
by asd88 5y ago
Considering Google/Facebook your “peers” is a common mistake people at MSFT make when they complain about comp. MSFT targets 67 percentile pay (which is actually above median, contrary to what everyone says), while GOOG/FB target > 95. They may be your competitors, but they are certainly not your peers (at least market-wise). Microsoft has managed to have great business results with 67 percentile SWE talent for a decade.
- tdhoot 5y agoGoogle's official stance is they target 75 percentile pay, not > 95. So not too far off from MS. My guess is they use different peer companies.
- kccqzy 5y agoHmm I can't find the source but I thought Google targets the 85th percentile not 75 or 95. But then again the market data that Google uses isn't public (and certainly isn't levels.fyi) so there could be discrepancies.
- joshuamorton 5y agoWell at least the confusion about what Google's target market percentile is isn't just limited to Google (all three of these comments are incorrect, the first one is the most correct, and 3-4 years ago it was more correct than it is now w.r.t. Google, and its correct in that FB targets a higher range than Google does).