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What industry were you working in when at the Series B and Series C/D companies? Do you feel like your salaries at those companies represent the going-rate your colleagues also received?
Series B company was a B2C mobile app. Series C/D company was B2B startup.
Age Salary Job Title
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16 ~$10k 1 Software Developer (MI)
17 ~$10k
18 ~$10k
19 ~$10k 2 Research Assistant (MI)
20 ~$15k 3 Software Engineer Intern (MI)
21 $35k Software Engineer
22 $35k
23 $45k
24 $70k 4 Software Engineer (MI)
25 $130k 5 Senior Software Engineer (Seattle, WA)
26 $160k Principal Software Engineer
27 $165k
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The total is after bonus only? Or..? Any advice for others? Isn't it notoriously difficult getting hired at Google? Do other non tech positions at Google pay as much? What about positions like QA?
Total includes bonus and equity (which makes up the bulk of it, especially in later years). So some of the increases are also just reflecting increases in GOOG from grant to vesting. I'm a software engineer. My impression is that pay for PMs (product managers) is very similar, although I couldn't say for sure. Not sure about other positions. And for QA specifically, I believe a lot are hired through a vendor so I ima…
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The company I worked for was a software shop. Most people there were developers. I don't really have algorithms and data structure skills. I almost never have to do these things in real life. I have done mostly front-end stuff (web and mobile). Should I go all-in on LeetCode? Will that guarantee a good paying job? It seems like 4 more years without income to get a bachelor's degree would be worth it considering the c…
If you can solve a leetcode medium in an hour _and_ get a work visa in the US, then you can easily double or triple that salary. Just throwing this out there: grinding interview problems sucks but it's the best thing you can do for your income in industry these days.
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Holy shit you went from $55k to $475k in 5 years with no college degree. This is a big reason I'm in tech. What a rocketing salary progression.
Would this kind of progression not be possible in finance?
Graduated from Kansas University in 2008.
2008 to 2010 - $50K CTO/co-founder of a small company
2011 - $125K SDE II @ Amazon
2012 - $125K SDE II @ Amazon
2013 - $175K SDE III @ Amazon
2014 - $217K SDE III @ Amazon
2015 - $200K E5 @ Facebook
2016 - $500K E6 @ Facebook
2017 - $800K E7 @ Facebook
2018 - $1M E7 @ Facebook
2019 ~ $1.25M E7 @ Facebook
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Companies in NYC and Boston will go well above $200k for senior people. I'd estimate salaries in each of those markets is only ~10-15% below SVBA. Obviously they have much higher cost of living than VA or most other places. Having Google, Facebook, etc. open large offices has brought up salaries a lot.
How long to get to senior level?
My progression: 23 - 45K (University sysadmin, east coast) 26 - 60k (University research systems programmer, east coast) 31 - 65k (SWE, small IHV, remote) 32-42 -- incremental raises up to $145K (senior SWE, same company) 43 - 425k (Senior SWE, Google, Mountain View CA) 44 - 390k (Senior SWE, Google, Mountain View CA) 45 - 350k (Senior SWE, Netflix, Remote) 46 - 400k (Senior SWE, Netflix, Remote) 47 - 525k (Senior SW…
As someone working in Japan paid around or below most of your junior salaries.. oof.
I'm not in London. :/
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But ~$500K is the market rate right now. Several people I know got that amount at Google, Facebook, and Oracle here in Seattle with ~10 years experience in cloud or AI/ML. Amazon’s stock increase has inflated the market rates because other companies had to pay so much in the last 3 years for people to leave Amazon. Obviously there’s no guarantee that this will last forever, but I was pretty confident I would have con…
I understand what you are saying, and when you sell stock that vests it is completely reasonable to count it as income as it shows up on your W2. My point was that just prior to the dot com crash I had over $6M in "RSUs" (well restricted stock which was a better deal since the number can't be fudged but what ever) and when it "vested" it was worth less than $12K. It showed up on my W2 because I used an 83b election t…