Compare career levels across companies
levels.fyi
Compare career levels across companies
1–10 of 428 posts
Re: Compare career levels across companies
#2I ran into this site before from all the compensation discussions on https://www.teamblind.com
Re: Compare career levels across companies
#3Hi, I'm one the makers of Levels.fyi. Happy to answer any questions and would love to hear feedback! We have a lot of features in the coming months that we think folks will love!
Re: Compare career levels across companies
#4I like how the sample question on Triplebyte tests API memorization instead of algorithms knowledge.
Of course, you can't win. At a whiteboarding session, there will always be applicants who give out the method from the library instead of providing an algorithmic solution.
Re: Compare career levels across companies
#5With anonymous submissions on sites like these (see also: Glassdoor), I wonder if there's any sabotage going on where companies submit fraudulent information about competitors.
Isn't it a potential downside to this open approach without any verification?
Re: Compare career levels across companies
#6I like how the sample question on Triplebyte tests API memorization instead of algorithms knowledge. Of course, you can't win. At a whiteboarding session, there will always be applicants who give out the method from the library instead of providing an algorithmic solution.
I found it to be an ok question; not at all an API one. The answers differ quite a bit, and by choosing one and explaining why you can show that you understand what you’re doing. For example, if you choose str.indexOf(‘ ‘) you clearly have no idea what you’re doing, and if you pick str.count(‘ ‘) - 1 you look like you saw the actual solution somewhere and are picking something that looks similar without really thinking about it (why are you subtracting one from something that seems like it returns the number of spaces in a string?). The last one would require the knowledge that “words” is not a common API that any language vends.
Re: Compare career levels across companies
#7Here's a slightly related open question: Are Engineers in the US just much richer than in the UK?
For perspective, I started my career with an MEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering as a Hardware Design Engineer at £35k (I out-earned most of my fellow graduates). It seems like these salaries are just comically disjointed from my entire experience of life. Can anyone here speak to the differences? Everything I've seen points me to Californians just living an incredibly well-off lifestyle, but everything I read also indicates the people who have those lifestyles do not feel well-off?
Re: Compare career levels across companies
#8Here's a slightly related open question: Are Engineers in the US just much richer than in the UK? For perspective, I started my career with an MEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering as a Hardware Design Engineer at £35k (I out-earned most of my fellow graduates). It seems like these salaries are just comically disjointed from my entire experience of life. Can anyone here speak to the differences? Everything I'…
Most likely, I've read the other day a new grad that signed a $200k bonus / stock over 3 years in the bay area. It's just insane.
Re: Compare career levels across companies
#9Here's a slightly related open question: Are Engineers in the US just much richer than in the UK? For perspective, I started my career with an MEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering as a Hardware Design Engineer at £35k (I out-earned most of my fellow graduates). It seems like these salaries are just comically disjointed from my entire experience of life. Can anyone here speak to the differences? Everything I'…
Yes, I think they're more well off in general. The UK in particular pays developers very poorly.
That being said housing costs in California are no joke, although you can find some analogies in London. Not sure how devs can afford to live there tbh.
It makes sense that they would get paid this much, and quite frankly I think even the FAANG devs are drastically underpaid. The companies are printing cash and almost entirely powered by developers. The salaries sound high but execs are grabbing the vast amount of the real money.
Re: Compare career levels across companies
#10Huge fan of this site, for two reasons:
- It lets “outsiders” to the tech scene understand salary and levels at big companies. If you went to MIT you probably already have frat brothers/sorority sisters or an alumni network that consists of senior engineers at these big companies that know the promotion and compensation schemes well. But if you were an equally smart student who went to a non target school, many of these organizational “open secrets” are hidden and must be earned through work experience, which costs time and career opportunity.
- Even if you do have some access to a network, these schemes evolve over time. Salary especially (levels not so much). Having up to date data is huge for assessing options during a job search or even planning for one.
The site isn’t perfect— a lot of the leveling data is subjective AFAICT and not based on cross company moves, and the comp info seems a bit skewed for some companies and more senior roles. But its a huge step in the right direction towards empowering employees.