My Salary Progression in Tech

Post by subsubsub » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 5:26 AM UTC

bitcoinmoney wrote: post #263

kilbuz wrote: post #201

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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.

Can you share your friends backgrounds that go to data engineers?

Post by minhaz23 » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 5:30 AM UTC

DVassallo wrote: post #249

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Any advice for someone like me who IS trying to optimize for as much money as possible? Being self taught, will I ever get to be as fortunate as you working at FAANG and seeing salaries and stocks like that?

Yes. I'm self taught. Plenty of self taught people at Amazon, with non-CS degrees, or no degrees at all. That definitely won't be a blocker. My advice would be to not try to seek satisfaction from "earning as much as possible"... because "as much as possible" is an unreachable destination. I worked with lots of unhappy people earning $350K/year because they felt they should be doing $500K. How do you think they'll fe…

Post by throwaway01505 » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 5:35 AM UTC

BadassFractal wrote: post #276

throwaway01505 wrote: post #271

I've been pretty fortunate. Hard to believe that in 2004, my little family survived on only $16k. That was a tough year. I was really grateful for government assistance, as we were below the poverty line. And last year I made more than $2M. I paid more than $1M in income taxes. I hope some of that money is going to help little families like mine in 2004. 2004: $16k 2005: $36k 2006: $47k 2007: $53k 2008: $56k 2009: $6…

Wow! What did you do that led to such a dramatic growth starting in 2013?

Post by throwaway98109 » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 5:42 AM UTC

AnotherGoodName wrote: post #244

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…

You get paid 3 times as much working in the US. You also get treated well rather than as a cost centre which was my experience back in Aus. I'm an Australian developer earning triple that+stocks on top at one of the FAANG. Trump, guns and shitty healthcare don't affect you day to day in the states. The E3 visa for Australians to work in the US is trivial. The funny thing is that Sydney real estate is comparable to si…

Post by DVassallo » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 5:51 AM UTC

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5 years experience at one of the leading cloud companies (AWS, Azure, Google) will very likely put you right in that market. Nothing special to join. It’s very hard to enter directly as an SDE-3 (or equivalent) without having experience at one of the big companies. I think in 8 years at Amazon I’ve only seen 1 person doing that. With a phd and some work experience you can likely join as an SDE-2 and get to an SDE-3 l…

Do SDE3 interviews still do it leetcode style?