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> This is complicated, because engineering titles are not equivalent across companies. A senior engineer at Company X does not equal senior engineer at Company
by zuhayeer 4y ago
> This is complicated, because engineering titles are not equivalent across companies. A senior engineer at Company X does not equal senior engineer at Company Y. So these companies have detailed ways you can map your titles to theirs.
Exactly why we created https://levels.fyi https://levels.fyi. While the site is mainly intended for job seekers, we've seen a lot of engineering managers use it as a tool to benchmark their offers and conduct compensation reviews.
A lot of startups nowadays tend to offer multiple options when sending candidates offers. They'll create a slider that allows you to adjust base salary against equity proportional to a target total compensation value with a minimum base requirement (I know even large companies like TikTok do this). You can go base heavy, equity heavy or somewhere in between. It gives candidates the flexibility to choose what to optimize for which is pretty nice.
- pcthrowaway 4y agoThanks for building one of the best resources I've seen for transparency into engineering compensation! One of the gripes I have as a Canadian is that it's never clear to me whether the salaries listed by Canadian residents are in USD or CAD. I assume USD since levels appears to normalize all other salary information globally into USD. But it seemed like this wasn't entirely clear at the point of submitting salary/offer details.
- zuhayeer 4y agoWe do show everything in USD by default, however on our location specific pages we have a currency toggle at the top to switch between CAD and USD: https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/Canada/ https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/Canada/ Definitely appreciate the feedback, we're working on better localization features as we speak!