Either I was: 1) seriously underpaid at Google, 2) things have changed a lot in the past half year or 3) the stats do not reflect real averages.
Are you comfortable posting your previous level/salary?
Compare career levels across companies
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#22Can you really make a million bucks with just 10 years experience as a T7 at Google? What does a "Senior Staff SWE" do? Are there a lot of them?
No, there are very few of them, maybe on the order of 10-100. The biggest factor in comp at many of these companies is tenure; large stock grant at Google or Facebook from 8 years ago has appreciated nicely as it vested.
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#23Hi, 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!
Hi and thanks for the info. A couple of things if I may. Please don’t hijack the browser history, played around with some companies and levels and when I tried coming back to HN the history was full ;-) Also it would be good if you could include some extra details about each level (e.g. education, years of experience). I think I’ll give Triplebyte a try, reminds me of HackerRank.
Good feedback. The browser history was a bug introduced from recent change in last few days. We're on it.
Regarding additional details on each level, although there is some correlation between years of experience and level, it actually isn't very strong. A better indication is typically responsibilities / scope of impact which we are working on defining more clearly. Thanks for the feedback!
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#24Can you really make a million bucks with just 10 years experience as a T7 at Google? What does a "Senior Staff SWE" do? Are there a lot of them?
Senior staff is something like <10% of all engineers (probably closer to 5%), the technical equivalent to a managerial “Director” title. Most engineers top out 2 promotions below.
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#25Either I was: 1) seriously underpaid at Google, 2) things have changed a lot in the past half year or 3) the stats do not reflect real averages.
Is glassdoor information more in line?
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#26Can you really make a million bucks with just 10 years experience as a T7 at Google? What does a "Senior Staff SWE" do? Are there a lot of them?
Just rumors I've heard but the people who make that much (and I've heard some crazy numbers) are people who have a lot of knowledge of proprietary systems internally in Google. I don't know if there are actually a lot of them though.
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#27Hi, 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!
Clicking around on the page adds to the tab's history. I had to click back 10x to go back to this thread. Seems kind of pointless to record state in this usecase?
Re Browser history hijack: this was bug introduced with a recent change. We're on it - apologies for the inconvenience!
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#28Here'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'…
The UK is just very skewed, due to finance. I studied in the UK, and there was a 6 month placement internship programme.
Engineering firm (industrial measurement) wanted to pay me $11K to be an engineer. Marketing department at a major semiconductor said £15K. So I took it. My friend at Goldmans got £37K.
So guess what I did after uni. I even met loads of people in finance with engineering degrees who said they were now earning multiples of what their previous bosses in engineering were earning.
Anyway, if you do have tech skills, finance is after that. Particularly right now as all the trading is going full auto. Amazingly there are still places that don't have straight through processing in place, so plenty of work. At the fun end there's a lot of demand for people who can write trading algos, which I did for a long time.
This is after years of IT people in finance being second class citizens.
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#29Hi, 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!
Hi, thanks for making such a helpful site! My feedback would be: * Would love to see the salary numbers without clicking for easy comparison * I don't like how clicking around fills my browser history and adds back button clicks
We have a dedicated page for compensation information: https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html
There's also a short url: www.comp.fyi :)