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500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

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Re: 500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

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The data seems wildly inaccurate. The total comp for some of the private companies seems way too high, not to mention how the equity is extremely illiquid. The total comp for nvidia seems way low given how their recent performance.

And there are a ton of large "boring" tech companies that are not on the list at all. I don't expect that they're anywhere close to leading the pack in comp, but not in the top 500?

Or they have a ton of junior engineers which brings down the median.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

And there are a ton of large "boring" tech companies that are not on the list at all. I don't expect that they're anywhere close to leading the pack in comp, but not in the top 500?

Or they have a ton of junior engineers which brings down the median.

Maybe. But 500 is a large number of companies. And those same companies have a fair number of employees who have been there for a decade or more. I'm not sure I believe that large profitable public companies aren't in the top 500 companies in tech in compensation overall.

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The data seems wildly inaccurate. The total comp for some of the private companies seems way too high, not to mention how the equity is extremely illiquid. The total comp for nvidia seems way low given how their recent performance.

And there are a ton of large "boring" tech companies that are not on the list at all. I don't expect that they're anywhere close to leading the pack in comp, but not in the top 500?

What do you mean? I see dell, disney, EA, oracle, walmart, all on that list. Like what companies are you thinking of?

Re: 500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

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“ In March 2022, OpenSea saw revenues of $61.33 million; in March 2023, it had revenues of $172.33k. The drop represented a whopping 99.72% fall. The platform's fees have also fallen from $193.94 million in March 2022 to $1.41 million in March 2023.” That’s OpenSea, no 11 on the list making $1.4m of monthly revenue and paying SWEs 430k salary

Also clubhouse. Is it still alive ?

Re: 500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

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These numbers are wildly inaccurate. I spotchecked multiple places that I know the salaries and they're wrong.

Agreed. I've worked at more than one company on this list, in positions with visibility into multiple peoples' total comp, and none of those are shown accurately here.

Re: 500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

And there are a ton of large "boring" tech companies that are not on the list at all. I don't expect that they're anywhere close to leading the pack in comp, but not in the top 500?

What do you mean? I see dell, disney, EA, oracle, walmart, all on that list. Like what companies are you thinking of?

Also big boring companies tend not to pay very well compared to more modern companies. This is just an anecdote based on my experiences with Disney.

Re: 500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

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On the topic of levels.fyi, the enshitification of the product has begun. It won't let you access things unless you provide your work email? Yeah right, like I am going to do that. A bunch of other mandatory questions in the sign up process also irk me a lot.

This is a issue, as if you need a work email and your workplace actively monitors email and sees a confirmation message of some sort from levels, they could assume you are hunting for a new job and act on it. This seems to defeat the purpose of levels
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