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by htormey 4y ago
Flexibility is what keeps software engineering salaries going up. Over the course of my career I’ve done firmware, desktop software, mobile and web development for a variety of industries. All on the back of a 4 year computer science degree
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by htormey 4y ago
Totally accurate and valuable information based on people in my network. You can make a lot of money working as a staff engineer at a top tier company.
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by htormey 4y ago
It’s a bit pedantic to be honest. Multiple times it’s been pointed out on this thread that the OP was referring to total comp so I’m not sure why this keeps being brought up. While equity in a public company can go down and go down signific
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by htormey 4y ago
The OP is confused, I work at coinbase and that figure refers to total comp. Also levels.fyi is listing salary and not total comp for the google position he is comparing.
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by htormey 4y ago
"Perhaps because the company lost half a billion dollars last quarter and is in a controversial space facing regulatory scrutiny?" Wouldn't you expect people to be paid more for working in a risky space? Also, please not Coin
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by htormey 4y ago
"I asked what the role was in the comment you are replying to. Do you have data to back up the "huge swath" assertion? Certainly there are a few individual companies that have been able to provide specialized roles a $380k ba
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by htormey 4y ago
No you are incorrect. That 224k is base at google not including equity. Staff engineers at google get a bonus and the majority of their comp is in equity, just like coin. Source, I have a lot of friends who are former/current staff eng
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by htormey 4y ago
Well yeah, that’s what they think the candidates pay level will be. If the candidate doesn’t perform well in the interview they won’t get that offer.
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by htormey 4y ago
No. This is well paid but not out of the ordinary for someone working at a top tier tech company in NYC/SF Bay Area. Think Facebook, Apple, etc. see https://www.levels.fyi/ for levels and comparison. Some of those comp
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by htormey 4y ago
The macro economic setup doesn’t look good for small tech or growth stocks in general. Big tech I’m less worried about. We have central banks rising interest rates to fight inflation, caused by wars and massive monetary and fiscal stimulus
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by htormey 4y ago
I work at coinbase. We have standardized salary bands, this is just the salary at your level (comp plus equity, not sure if bonus is included). They are letting you know this up front to not waste your time. One other thing that’s worth not
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by htormey 5y ago
Yep. That was my plan, do the cheapest best course that would get me an F1 (student visa) then do an internship with OPT and switch to full time. Agreed, re FAANG or other companies that have a USA presence.
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by htormey 5y ago
I hate tech interviews. If it’s any consolation, I remember when I interviewed at Apple, I failed 10 interviews for multiple teams over 2 years before I got my first job.
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by htormey 5y ago
This is very similar to my story. I moved to America from Ireland in 2007 after graduating with a degree in cs. I did a year in grad school before working in tech in the Bay Area for more than a decade, including at two companies from FAANG
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by htormey 5y ago
Can you explain why you think these integrations violate the Clayton act (I.e are unfair competition)? Google exists and Amazon and Microsoft have growing advertising businesses. All of which have vast throves of integrated consumer data.
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by htormey 5y ago
Sadly apple are not angels either when it comes to scanning photos: https://www.pcmag.com/news/apple-to-delay-implementing-anti-...
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by htormey 5y ago
I am an EM at Coinbase hiring for the borrow & lend team. I am hiring for react native, react frontend, backend (go/aws), design and product. Happy to refer people in for other roles at the company. We are hiring sf/NYC and we
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by htormey 5y ago
Yeah sure but would that be worse than the other crashes that have happened over the life of BTC and other crypto assets? What kind of draw down would you expect and why? I think it’s unlikely that this would happen to all stable coins. So
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by htormey 5y ago
People, mainly in Asia, use tether where trading crypto with fiat currencies is either prohibited or very difficult, whereas it remains marginal in markets such as the United States. I.e places with exchanges that don’t have good fiat rails
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by htormey 5y ago
Also, are these figures factoring in things landlords are doing now to sweeten the deal without dropping the per month/sq price? I.e giving months away for free or other incentives like that? Anecdotally I’ve heard office rent is way d
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by htormey 5y ago
Oakland night life isn’t that bad :)
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by htormey 5y ago
Theirs an image in the article that compares business and performance metrics before and after: https://miro.medium.com/max/7200/0*L6GxhXWiTckqwMYL Ratings and some perf metrics(start time) improved, no regression
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by htormey 5y ago
Doesn’t that depend on the age of the building? I thought rent control was 1970s and earlier? That being said, SF is generally very tenant/sub tenant friendly in its laws.
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by htormey 6y ago
Yeah, stuff like leveling and role changes become issues mainly at companies with large engineering teams. I.e FAANG, MSFT, etc. In my opinion the main reasons to work at a startup are A) it’s growing ridiculously fast and you expect your e
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by htormey 6y ago
Making promotion the only way to get a bump in salary can cause all sorts of problem when the responsibilities and requirements of the role change at the next level. As an example, at big companies staff level engineer is more oriented arou
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by htormey 6y ago
Also it can potentially reduce the client side logic needed to stitch said 4 requests together. This can be a big complexity/bug preventer for multi client Apps (web, mobile, desktop).
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by htormey 6y ago
Well I imagine it’s a function of the stage of companies the VC’s are investing in. If you are an early stage investor and you are writing lots of checks to cast a wide net do you really have the time to do that level of due diligence? Pres
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by htormey 6y ago
You are totally correct. Beyond a certain level of due diligence it doesn’t matter.
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by htormey 6y ago
“ Investors need to start asking more probing questions about how organizations develop and deploy applications. Perhaps if the money becomes contingent, people will start to give a shit about the engineering quality” Why? Most companies fa
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by htormey 6y ago
Just a reminder that Coinbase custody is a different product to the app you install from the App Store. The faq you posted I believe refers to the latter. If you are a large institutional investor you would likely use this and not a normal

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