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I have to ask: how do you work as an eng who pulls in $1m/yr?
by mattgreenrocks 4y ago
I have to ask: how do you work as an eng who pulls in $1m/yr?
- rytrix 4y agoMultiple contracts or multiple full time positions (i.e. overemployed)
- haliskerbas 4y agoHigh level IC at big tech can get you around that neighborhood
- phlipski 4y agoAt semiconductor companies we have plenty of IC's doing IC design. The initialism has multiple definitions.
- leafmeal 4y agoWhat does IC mean? Doesn't seem to be very googleable
- pinkorchid 4y agoAn individual contributor, as opposed to a manager.
- fellellor 4y agoIC means integrated circuit.
- drewcoo 4y agoIchabod Crane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichabod_Crane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichabod_Crane
- penteract 4y agoIC=Individual contributor (to answer sibling)
- fellellor 4y agoFor the guy that asked, IC means integrated circuit. No fucking way they would give that money to a meatsack.
- bagels 4y agoIn this context it means "individual contribtor", and yes, some people are making that much money at Facebook, Google, Amazon and others.
- slowhand09 4y agoIC being internal consultant?
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- bkjelden 4y agoEmphasis on "high level". An org of a few hundred people at a big tech company many only have a couple of Individual Contributors making this much money.
- bagels 4y agoAn L7 IC at Facebook or Google can do this. I know it's unbelievable for those not in one of these companies, but this data is accurate: https://www.levels.fyi https://www.levels.fyi
- throwayayay123 4y ago(throwaway I guess) I make over $1m as a SWE. “Senior Staff” or “Level 7” role at a big tech company everyone knows. I mostly write code! I am way faster than most others here, and I have encouraged and mentored the people on my team to be similarly efficient. I also help decide technical direction but it’s far from the “architecture astronaut” stereotype that writes no code. It’s an infra team so no significant influence on product direction, other than considering our frameworks and tools products. I do consider them in that way, but it’s still a big difference from being involved in the direction of the external product.
- philangist 4y ago> mentored the people on my team to be similarly efficient What were the main changes you introduced/points you mentored them on to get their productivity to also be similarly efficient?
- throwayayay123 4y agoA lot of it is pretty related to company internals and is tooling specific. At a large company there is a lot of infra and tooling that can break in all kinds of fun ways, quality is very mixed, so helping the team become experts in this is very useful for productivity and unblocking oneself. I see people on other teams that seem to be stuck for days sometimes, on a really basic error that they haven’t really tried to debug at all. Seriously, just read the error message or dig into the code! My team also has a strong culture of just pushing code changes. This is including tons of deletions and simplifications, it’s not just writing a million lines of code. It’s also a very senior team, so I can’t take credit for everyone’s growth from junior engineers. Another part of it is creating an environment that productive senior coders want to join, so that they can avoid process-heavy teams and get stuff done. There is an extreme level of trust on the team because everyone is senior and frankly extremely good at their job, which allows us to be even more productive.
- twalla 4y agoOne a scale of 1 to 10, how much did good timing with regard to equity play into your overall comp?
- scruple 4y agoThere's a couple where I work. They are highly specialized in a very specific area of CS, with decades of experience, and with a vast working knowledge of the specific internal framework that they've helped build over the course of ~15-20 years.