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Re: Compare career levels across companies

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Post by rco8786 »

JimboOmega wrote: post #109
seattleeng wrote: post #10

Huge 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 th…

There are two problems with these: 1) If you aren't at one of these companies, it's not a fair comparison. It's really difficult to find a pre-IPO company who is going to compensate you like these, if for no other reason than that options are just not something you can easily stick a dollar value on. 2) It's kind of depressing. It's very easy to find people at similar experience levels as you making FAR more money (p…

I’ve written extensive ruby at 2 of the companies listed on this site (including my current job which is 100% ruby)

Re: Compare career levels across companies

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Post by Zaheer »

phd514 wrote: post #118
Zaheer wrote: post #3

Hi, 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!

I added my comp at one of the listed companies a couple weeks back and it never showed up in your list. I'm not sure if there are bugs in your front end or lots of false negatives in your spam filtering or what. I'm happy to contribute to such an effort but not to the point where I have to figure out how to game your submission process.

Apologies - this shouldn't happen. Are you sure it never made it on the site? The comp page takes ~5 minutes to refresh new submissions.

Re: Compare career levels across companies

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Post by Zaheer »

kevinyun wrote: post #162

I remember seeing this site being posted by an indie hacker / startup guy(s?). The interface feels very familiar. Was this acquired by Triplebyte? Did Triplebyte acquire levels.io?

Yup we were featured on IndieHackers [1]! Triplebyte is our sponsor. We are independent.

[1] https://indiehackers.com/interview/da7a4f5d63

Re: Compare career levels across companies

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Post by marcell »

CM30 wrote: post #71

It's an interesting site, and it seems like a nice way to compare salary and the possibilities for advancement at the companies included. However, am I the only one who kinda thought it'd give a bit of information about the responsibilities and required skillsets for each level? Personally, I've always found the hardest bit around shopping around for a job knowing exactly what they expect of a hire with X number of y…

It’s usually a bit more ambituois than knowing specific languages or having specific defined skills. A lot of the benefits of having more senior engineers is good judgement, which is hard to define or quantify or identify. However good judgement can have huge benefits. For example picking the right abstraction today avoids an expensive refactor 2 years from now.

Re: Compare career levels across companies

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Post by Zaheer »

georgeburdell wrote: post #117

Perhaps a stupid question, but are the comparable levels for equal seniority or impact of work, or equal compensation? If the latter, they definitely don't line up, especially FAANG vs. non-FAANG. If the former, it seems about right; wife and I are both staff-level at two different companies and the tiers are next to each other.

We take a holistic approach to level comparisons. The ultimate goal being to answer, "If I join X company, what level will I be placed at?". Compensation as you've pointed out, is not reflective of this because it varies wildly based on the size of company.

Re: Compare career levels across companies

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Post by nemo44x »

robynsmith wrote: post #51

This makes salaries and compensation in Toronto seem outrageously low. Wow. Maybe I should be moving? Crazy. (Sadly, family is here, so moving is unlikely)

The truth is, in my experience, people in the major cities (and even some outside them) in the USA are the most highly compensated people on Earth. Canada and the EU have a lot of social systems that cost a lot of money. They have a lot of worker protections. This means it costs more to hire someone there and it is very difficult to get rid of them meaning more risk for the company. Because of this (and other reasons I'm sure) the wages are far lower.

In the low end and even mid-tier this probably works out better for Canada and the EU. But at the high end, which these jobs are, you're paying a large price compared to the USA. But hopefully you find the costs worth it.

Re: Compare career levels across companies

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Post by oculusthrift »

agoldis wrote: post #172

I left Amazon just 5 months after being employed there as an SDE, it was terrible. It's not all about the money. The levels have nothing to do with tech or experience. It's the ability of person to navigate his career through corporate bureaucracy and politics.

no offense but when i hear leaving after 5 months it just sounds like serious underperformance.

Re: Compare career levels across companies

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Post by domlebo70 »

sjg007 wrote: post #170
domlebo70 wrote: post #140

What is it like working at Google? I work at a startup, and these numbers are insanity to me. I have 10 years experience in mostly Haskell & FP (and that's what I enjoy doing). What would I do with my skills at one of the bigger tech companies?

Facebook has a few Haskell hackers. I imagine they need a few more to combat not only spam but fake accounts, fake news and fake viral posts. Huge opportunity right there. I don't work at Facebook but follow their tech blog. https://code.fb.com/security/fighting-spam-with-haskell/

Yeah I know of this team, and I'd love to work with them. The problems they are solving sound really interesting. I guess I am afraid of joining under the understanding I'd join that particular team, but then find I'm shuffled onto some boring Java CRUD app, with no escape. I've nothing against those apps, but I've been there done that, and I'm not interested in it.
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