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Re: Compare career levels across companies

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Post by dilyevsky »

imbusy111 wrote: post #50
bhelkey wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you comfortable posting your previous level/salary?

It was a little under 200k/yr total in Mountain View for T4.

There’s no T-ladder for a while now. That does sound kinda low. I was payed slightly more as L3 more than 5 years ago.

Re: Compare career levels across companies

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Post by zeven7 »

imbusy111 wrote: post #17

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.

This matches up with what I was paid at Google, even a little under, at the T3 level. I didn't have any competing offers. And I didn't negotiate. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe T3 level is accurate because they're new hires, but higher levels are skewed by how much the value of stock grants have increased.

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Post by whiskyant »

slivym wrote: post #7

Here'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'…

To answer your question, yes, pay in SF/CA/USA definitely outweighs the increased cost of living. Software engineers here are paid more than anywhere else in the world.

It makes sense though since the wealthiest tech companies in the world are here, the most talented engineers gather here for that reason, and companies can afford to pay high compensation packages in order to get the best talent.

I don't expect other parts of the world to increase software engineer comp until they start producing much more billion dollar tech companies.

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Post by true_religion »

Arnavion wrote: post #11
saagarjha wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 thinki…

I agree with you about A and C, but not your reason for discounting D. In particular, https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.0.0/unicode/str/trait.UnicodeStr... is an ancient counter-example (it was replaced by split_whitespace).

Counting words isnt strictly the same thing as counting spaces, so without knowing Javascript, you can still guess that it is wrong.

Most of their questions are like SAT questions. They require you have some knowledge about the field in general, then place the answer within the wording of the question itself, or allow logic to determine the right answer.

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