Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

My Salary Progression in Tech

georgestocker.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

201–210 of 631 posts

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

#201

Post by kilbuz »

kuhhk wrote: post #179
bitcoinmoney wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Edit. Saw you are remote for netflix. Can you expound which location you work out of? And where the team is located? Am amazed by 800k.

I assume the 800k is because of vested stock with strong share growth.

An actual Netflixer can chime in, but as far as I know from friends who work there, Netflix is almost all base, no stock and no large bonus. My friends are data engineers with 3-5 YOE making about 400k base upon their hire, so I believe it. They thought folks in the ML group were in the 700-800k range. All hearsay though, so please take with grain of salt.

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

#202

Post by biztos »

aristophenes wrote: post #120
hk__2 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can we really compare them, though? I live in France, where €90k/y puts you in the top 1% salaries. In the US, you’d need to earn $400k/y to be in the same position. Standard of living and other social benefits come to mind.

I don't get this thinking. I think everyone is making the comparison to Silicon Valley, which is ridiculously expensive because their are too many people making too much money that all want to be in the same place. In most of the USA, not only do you make more than you would in France, but things are actually cheaper, not more expensive. Imagine you make $150,000/year, a really nice house cost $300,000 (think $2,000…

> too many people making too much money

The people making "too much money" are doing the indispensable work that generates the profit (or chance-at-profit) for their employers, and the employers are by definition OK with paying them that share, which even in very profitable industries is highly unlikely to be as big a share as "management" gets.

If people in France get a much smaller cut (I assume they do, people in Germany certainly do) then wouldn't that mean they're getting too little?

(I think this was close to the other half of your point actually.)

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

#203

Post by Aeolun »

rubicon33 wrote: post #155
tvphan wrote: post #45

I am Asian but was born and raised in Australia. I have a Bachelor of Science and I work as a web developer, e.g. Spring, ASP.NET, React, WordPress, Drupal, etc. 2013 - 23yo - $45K - First job - Magento developer building eCommerce websites for clients. 2014 - 24yo - $54K 2015 - 25yo - $70K - Second job - Magento / Shopify / WordPress developer, building eCommerce websites for clients. 2016 - 26yo - $75K 2017 - 27yo…

Web development and other easy domains like iOS / Android are quickly going the way of other craft jobs of the past: Blue collar. If you want to make above average salaries you're going to have to specialize. Find something that is both challenging (to reduce barrier to entry) and niche (to demand a higher salary). In other words - specialize. Staying as a generic web/ios/android dev is only going to guarantee that y…

The only thing this means is that development quality goes down as salaries get lower though.

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

#204

Post by quickthrower2 »

jimbobimbo wrote: post #143

This is such an odd survey, especially when framed as "White people especially need to talk about their salaries because marginalized folks in the same fields often have no idea they're being swindled by employers." How knowledge of me making $X helps anyone? If you think that you're underpaid, the only thing that will make difference is a competing offer. Reducing experience, amount of work, kind of work and value t…

> Know your local job market.

Knowing the international job market is very helpful. I would not know it without a post like this (or HN in general). I could 5x my salary by moving to the US and stay in a tech role. To do a 5x here i'd need to become a board member of a large company.

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

#205

Post by minhaz23 »

salarythrow1234 wrote: post #166

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…

how typical is that to be making 800k as an swe? Or even 425k - 800k? And what can one do to reach that point faster?

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

#206

Post by minhaz23 »

rubicon33 wrote: post #155
tvphan wrote: post #45

I am Asian but was born and raised in Australia. I have a Bachelor of Science and I work as a web developer, e.g. Spring, ASP.NET, React, WordPress, Drupal, etc. 2013 - 23yo - $45K - First job - Magento developer building eCommerce websites for clients. 2014 - 24yo - $54K 2015 - 25yo - $70K - Second job - Magento / Shopify / WordPress developer, building eCommerce websites for clients. 2016 - 26yo - $75K 2017 - 27yo…

Web development and other easy domains like iOS / Android are quickly going the way of other craft jobs of the past: Blue collar. If you want to make above average salaries you're going to have to specialize. Find something that is both challenging (to reduce barrier to entry) and niche (to demand a higher salary). In other words - specialize. Staying as a generic web/ios/android dev is only going to guarantee that y…

What are some examples of challenging and niche fields? How can one do research to find fields like this that they also enjoy? As well as realize whether they have any marketable potential?

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

#207

Post by minhaz23 »

fitech wrote: post #161
tvphan wrote: post #45

I am Asian but was born and raised in Australia. I have a Bachelor of Science and I work as a web developer, e.g. Spring, ASP.NET, React, WordPress, Drupal, etc. 2013 - 23yo - $45K - First job - Magento developer building eCommerce websites for clients. 2014 - 24yo - $54K 2015 - 25yo - $70K - Second job - Magento / Shopify / WordPress developer, building eCommerce websites for clients. 2016 - 26yo - $75K 2017 - 27yo…

Just my 2 cents...If you want to make significantly more, focus on the business problems you can solve, not the technology you know/use. I’m not an “X” developer. I’m a business person that happens to use code to add value. If this is outside your comfort zone, look for some basic books on business and internalize the fact that until you can tie your knowledge to dollars coming through the door, you likely won’t make…

Could you elaborate a bit more?

It's hard to realize what problems a business faces without being involved intimately in the industry.

How can one seek out these problems and begin to work on solutions?

Would you mind sharing those posts?

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

#208

Post by s_t_away »

Googler1234 wrote: post #195
s_t_away wrote: post #181

Adding mine, all at Google: 2008: Base $90K, Total $110K 2009: Base $110K, Total $170K 2010: Base $130K, Total $330K 2011: Base $200K, Total $590K 2012: Base $220K, Total $680K 2013: Base $220K, Total $830K 2014: Base $230K, Total $980K 2015: Base $240K, Total $990K 2016: Base $250K, Total $1.2M 2017: Base $250K, Total $1.4M 2018: Base $265K, Total $1.5M 2019: Base $280K (edited for formatting)

Just curious, which level? L8?

Hired at L3

  2008 - L4
  2009 - L5
  2010 - L6
  2014 - L7

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

#209

Post by hoi »

empath75 wrote: post #116
narcindin wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An income over 220k is easily > 90% percentile. I do not know what upper middle class is supposed to mean. Does it mean 90-95 percentile?

I’d say you’re upper class if you have enough accumulated wealth that your kids will never have to work. Even if you’re making 500k a year, depending on the part of the country, it may take a fair few years before you make that jump. I think it’s the difference between having _wealth_ and having a lot of disposable income. There’s a fairly big difference. You can convert the latter to the former but not everyone does…

Really depends on your definitionof social stratification. Traditional class values is correlated to wealth, but you could be not wealthy and still be considered upper class. e.g a Duke or Lord.

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

#210

Post by minhaz23 »

throwaway031419 wrote: post #192

* 2018 $1,155,000 * 2017 $1,259,000 Senior Staff Software Engineer * 2016 $661,000 time off 2015 $1,543,000 * 2014 $1,465,000 * 2013 $1,241,000 * 2012 $876,000 Threatened to quit, got a bunch of stock * 2011 $368,000 * 2010 $318,000 * 2009 $244,000 * 2008 $192,000 Staff Software Engineer * 2007 $167,000 * 2006 $165,000 * 2005 $157,000 Senior Softare Engineer, Norcal * 2004 $246,000 stock sale 2003 $80,000 * 2002 $76,…

Still in VA?

Is it typical for senior SWE to make 1.2 million?

How can one reach that point faster?

Post reply on HN