I was an L66 at Microsoft six years ago; the numbers there line up pretty well with my own, and the other numbers I'm aware of there.
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#43Either 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.
I found that there was extreme variance at the lower levels and that would persist as people moved up through the ranks. A lot of that came down to negotiation or previous salary at the company they were leaving. I'd also say that the Zurich office throws the salary average much higher. The real strat was to get hired at Zurich, lock in the big RSU package and then take a nugatory salary cut and move to LA or Boulder.
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#44Can 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?
For someone to be at T7 after only 10 years, they would have to be truly exceptional. It does happen, but it's rare.
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#45Wow, I'm 40 year old director at big fortune company... and I find this mildly depressing lol. Why is this so different than Glassdoor?
IIRC Glassdoor is salary, not total comp.
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#46Wow, I'm 40 year old director at big fortune company... and I find this mildly depressing lol. Why is this so different than Glassdoor?
Probably because glassdoor averages out compensation over all years despite tech wages continually growing and thus they are weighted down by old data.
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#47Wow, I'm 40 year old director at big fortune company... and I find this mildly depressing lol. Why is this so different than Glassdoor?
One reason is that Glassdoor doesnt deprecate old data (or at least gross it up by CPI)
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I worked for Google in London and SF, the was a significant salary difference but also some personal growth. Still it could be at least 2-3x
Right, I get the salary is 2-3x, but does that translate to a much bigger house? Better schools for your kids? Holidays to St Moritz? Or is it more like, 2-3x most of which goes into rent, health insurance and local taxes?
At least in Google they pay almost all of the health insurance. Taxes are slightly lower. So yes you can save a lot. It is very suburban so you will have a larger house then London, but it is not a city. Prices for apartments/houses are high, but you can find something that doesn't eat the whole salary and if you buy a house you hopefully can sell it for more later.
I was a bit shocked at first how dated silicon valley looks at least compared to the price. And the commute is soul killing. Public transport is worse then British trains, with the added problem that the stations are in useless places.
But the weather is great and the job opportunities for software engineers are fantastic. Dating also sucks I have heard.
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#49Wow, I'm 40 year old director at big fortune company... and I find this mildly depressing lol. Why is this so different than Glassdoor?
Glassdoor is heavily skewed towards older data points and hence underestimates significantly given the sharp rise in comp in the last few years.