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by comp_throw7 6y ago
This entire thread seems a bit silly. 1) Average comp for a senior (not principal) engineer at FAANG is 350-400k, not 200k. 2) It's much easier to get a job at FAANG and get promoted to senior (or get a job elsewhere and hop to FAANG l
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by comp_throw7 6y ago
Hey, big fan of your work :) Love the new reporting feature, way less friction than sending an email.
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by comp_throw7 6y ago
The person I was replying to didn't specify any particular baseline for living standards, so I reject the assertion that my example was inappropriate. If you want to raise a family in SF proper, I agree that 100k/yr total income w
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by comp_throw7 6y ago
Agreed that that functionality would be helpful, though I haven't noticed a huge number of offers with details that would indicate "stock growth" rather than "initial offer + raises". They're there, but they&#
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by comp_throw7 6y ago
Levels.fyi is basically spot-on for my company, despite it having a relatively small # of reports, and is also accurate for friends of mine who work at larger companies (FAANG). But, as another reply said, some places will have vastly diff
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by comp_throw7 6y ago
There is a sense in which a non-trivial chunk of those productivity gains are eaten up by rent-seeking (in SF/NY, the high rents are literally rent-seeking in that they're the result of deliberate manipulation of local laws &
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by comp_throw7 6y ago
This is the correct answer. To put it another way, US companies are more productive (in the economic sense) than EU companies, and that gap is even wider for tech companies (& those that rely heavily on employing software engineers).
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by comp_throw7 6y ago
This seems like it's incorrectly estimating orders of magnitude. Some actual numbers: In 2019, Google's gross revenue was ~$162b. ~$76b went to "costs of revenue", ~$26b went to R&D, and ~$11b to stock-based compens