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You can do this for free today using open source libraries. https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html used to run entirely on a Google Form + Spreadsheet and still backed by one. Submit form: https://stackoverflow.com
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I use https://localtunnel.github.io/www/ Simple and works well
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I think there's still room for compiling aggregate salary data. I'm from levels.fyi and we get emails all the time about how folks were able to negotiate higher based on our data. We're entirely crowdsourced which admittingly
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Hi, you can view the full list of data points on the Comp page [1]. Only a few tech companies are able to pay top dollar. We released a report of the top paying tech companies of 2018 recently which highlights a few of these [2]. Also, keep
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Ah interesting. One thing that might help: we collect # of Years at Company. There isn't a way to filter on the compensation page for it but you can click a row to see this info. Additionally, on the main page if you click on a level a
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If this ever happens please try to capture / send us any relevant details. We know there's some issues with Internet Explorer but not aware of any other issues. Thanks for the kind words! Surfacing work / life balance and gen
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Not yet - in the works! :)
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Google in particular often starts will lower compensation but will match other offers (from Big-N companies) quickly. I'd recommend getting another Big-N offer and using that to negotiate. Some great resources for negotiation: - https
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Maker here, what device & browser are you using? The email in chat is optional. You can ignore the input message for it if you would not like to share email address.
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Zaheer from Levels.fyi here. Our next feature is actually better regionalization. This is the top ask we've gotten so far. Additionally we're considering coming up with a standard leveling so that we can provide industry-wide gran
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I would try looking for Marketing roles. SEO is a critical component of marketing and most companies would likely frame the position as Marketing / Growth rather than just purely SEO.
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Thanks! The compensation figures we collect are 'Total Compensation' and so we expect users to include that as part of the reported figure. Many companies factor refreshers into the total compensation they allocate to employees. T
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Our numbers for Lyft are admittingly based off a small sample size. We did validate these numbers manually though across other forums that exist (Blind, Reddit, etc) to ensure they're within range. For larger companies we have dozens o
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Maker here. We do some validation across salaries and take down obvious outliers as well as only include 1 standard deviation on our charts. We've found this filters out majority of the noise. We've talked to employees, hiring man
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Google Salary Ranges and Levels – Levels.fyi
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From the Bill Digest [1]: - Prohibits an employer from: (1) Seeking the wage or salary history of an applicant for employment from the applicant or a current or former employer; or (2) Requiring that an applicant&
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Washington Adds Pay History Ban, Salary Range Transparency Requirements [pdf]
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Yup, we recently added salary ranges on levels.fyi as well. Would love feedback on presentation format and other other graphs folks would find useful: https://www.levels.fyi/charts.html
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https://www.Levels.fyi started very similar to the 'Ask a Manager' survey in the article. We had a Google Form / Spreadsheet to collect salaries in tech. In fact, they still underpin our UI today. We've had f
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One of the pain points of the last Checkout page was that it required server-side code. This new version can be used with fully static websites out of the box!
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Yes these titles vary widely at different companies. In fact, that's exactly why we build https://www.levels.fyi - We don't have CircleCI on there yet but hope it helps.
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Google vs. Facebook vs. Microsoft – Compare Eng Manager Levels Across Companies
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Co-Founder here. Data is crowdsourced but we manually check it regularly to filter out spam. We have enough data now where outliers are weeded out. We've gotten feedback from the community that our data is some of the best compensation
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We currently don't have a good story around location. Most of the salaries are in the Bay Area / Seattle. We're working on improving this!!
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Comp.fyi has over 5k self-reported salaries. Any user generated content will always have slight inaccuracy / variation though we have enough data points to generate a fairly good median figure. You can take a look at the individual sub
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What specific information do employees not have? I'm co-founder of https://www.Levels.fyi / https://www.Comp.fyi which we built specifically to tackle information asymmetry in the job-seeking process. Would
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This seems like a one-time problem during setup of someone's infrastructure. Is the one-time cost of doing these integrations really worth the monthly cost of Segment? There must be some other value they provide?
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This post was on HN the other day: https://blog.usejournal.com/how-i-negotiated-a-software-engi...
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Very realistic. Check out all the submissions on: https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html disclosure: I'm co-founder of levels.fyi
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I'm from Levels.fyi and we're in early stages of launching Company reviews. Would love suggestions on how we can build the best review experience. Feel free to comment or DM at: hello@levels.fyi
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