Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level

Post by 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 » Mon, Jan 06, 2020, 5:00 AM UTC

glglwty wrote: post #10

typest wrote: post #6

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There is not necessarily a catch. Pay is not based on cost of living -- it's set by market rates, and the market rate for software engineers in these areas who can do the jobs required at these companies is high. All these companies operate at an immense scale where an engineer, through what is often a simple change, can add significant value to the company. So, yes. For now, these companies are giving college grads…

A senior position in the doc will probably get you ~2M in savings by 35. How do you retire with that?

Post by brians » Mon, Jan 06, 2020, 5:01 AM UTC

slg wrote: post #11

I have never worked in the valley, so the answer to this question might be obvious to the people working there. What happens to all the experienced engineers? According to this, the Senior, Staff, or Principal titles are generally for people with 5+ year experience? Those roles make up 30%, 10%, and 3% of companies respectively. That leaves 57% of engineers in positions listed are usually for people with 0-5 years ex…

Post by avalys » Mon, Jan 06, 2020, 5:02 AM UTC

cbanek wrote: post #15

I'm not sure about the salaries, but I'm more sure Amazon isn't in Seattle, CA. (Staff engineer slide). I'm also wondering how much of the salary (which certainly contains a lot of stock) is due to stock appreciation. If someone joined Amazon in late 2016, the value of their stock awards has more than tripled. Do offers for these companies go this high, or is this only after a few years? This seems it's more "what I'…

Post by glitchc » Mon, Jan 06, 2020, 5:02 AM UTC

Post by andreilys » Mon, Jan 06, 2020, 5:03 AM UTC

Waterluvian wrote: post #16

typest wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is not necessarily a catch. Pay is not based on cost of living -- it's set by market rates, and the market rate for software engineers in these areas who can do the jobs required at these companies is high. All these companies operate at an immense scale where an engineer, through what is often a simple change, can add significant value to the company. So, yes. For now, these companies are giving college grads…

Interesting, thanks. Now I wonder how many of these jobs are 100% work from home. I'm not sure a salary doubling could take me away from my family and into commuting an hour a day. But I mean, if they're going to pay me to engineer in my pyjamas, sure! =)