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In the law? No; but, this is the sort of thing that people who care about equality in pay should look at and refuse to work at. If there can be an 800k differen

In the law? No; but, this is the sort of thing that people who care about equality in pay should look at and refuse to work at. If there can be an 800k difference between two different employees with the same title that sit next to each other, that's not a place I would want to work for and wouldn't even apply.

lovecg 4y ago
I strongly suspect no place would pay 800k otherwise. The reality is these companies cannot simply have 800k positions with well defined criteria - these compensation levels are reserved for people that would be especially painful to replace, and the criteria are rarely cut and dry. You could come up with a bigger hammer to prevent these practices, but in the end the exceptional employees are the only ones to lose - I bet companies would love there to be a blanket ban on large compensation in the industry.
- t-writescode 4y ago
  > these compensation levels are reserved for people that would be especially painful to replace, and the criteria are rarely cut and dry. So they'd be more like the "fellow" position at other companies, then, yes? Or the senior staff engineers? The problem isn't the 900k, the problem is the 90-900k range. You can hide a lot of evil in a range that wide. You can hide gender and ethnic pay biases in that range. a 500-750k range for Principal engineers or 500k to 2MM range for "Senior Staff Engineers" makes more sense than 90k to 900k.
jdminhbg 4y ago
If it's possible for there to be an $800k difference I am definitely applying.
- shagie 4y ago
  https://www.levels.fyi/companies/netflix/salaries/software-engineer/levels/l5 https://www.levels.fyi/companies/netflix/salaries/software-e... The lowest reported is $180k. The highest is $1.5M, but $900k is where most appear to top out.
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JumpCrisscross 4y ago
> an 800k difference between two different employees with the same title Nothing wrong with this. I personally find titles annoying, compensation ceilings based on titles moreso, so this would seem a decent culture filter. (I also like working with teams and seeing colleagues as, if not necessarily friends, very close acquaintances, so Netflix wouldn’t be a fit.)

lovecg 4y ago

I strongly suspect no place would pay 800k otherwise. The reality is these companies cannot simply have 800k positions with well defined criteria - these compensation levels are reserved for people that would be especially painful to replace, and the criteria are rarely cut and dry. You could come up with a bigger hammer to prevent these practices, but in the end the exceptional employees are the only ones to lose - I bet companies would love there to be a blanket ban on large compensation in the industry.

t-writescode 4y ago
> these compensation levels are reserved for people that would be especially painful to replace, and the criteria are rarely cut and dry. So they'd be more like the "fellow" position at other companies, then, yes? Or the senior staff engineers? The problem isn't the 900k, the problem is the 90-900k range. You can hide a lot of evil in a range that wide. You can hide gender and ethnic pay biases in that range. a 500-750k range for Principal engineers or 500k to 2MM range for "Senior Staff Engineers" makes more sense than 90k to 900k.

jdminhbg 4y ago

If it's possible for there to be an $800k difference I am definitely applying.

shagie 4y ago
https://www.levels.fyi/companies/netflix/salaries/software-engineer/levels/l5 https://www.levels.fyi/companies/netflix/salaries/software-e... The lowest reported is $180k. The highest is $1.5M, but $900k is where most appear to top out.

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JumpCrisscross 4y ago

> an 800k difference between two different employees with the same title Nothing wrong with this. I personally find titles annoying, compensation ceilings based on titles moreso, so this would seem a decent culture filter. (I also like working with teams and seeing colleagues as, if not necessarily friends, very close acquaintances, so Netflix wouldn’t be a fit.)