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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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Post by geraldwhen »

ghaff wrote: post #20
najork wrote: post #11

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?

Maybe median is low? My total comp is high 2s, and where I work isn’t on the list.

My job is very easy and likely 36 hours a week. I’ve never once worked weekends or holidays, and the vacation time is better than European.

But when I started my total comp as waaaaaay lower. It took time for the money to stack.

Re: 500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

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Post by miketromba »

Icathian wrote: post #8

Neat, thanks for sharing. 1. Posting some methodology in the README might be good, such as any filtering you did or didn't do. 2. You do have some obvious duplicates on there, e.g. `cit` and `citadel`, `jane` and `jane-street`. It's probably not worth the effort to manually clean that up, but I figured I'd mention.

Good call, added some more details.

Re: 500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

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Post by ghaff »

VirusNewbie wrote: post #25
ghaff wrote: post #20

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?

Akamai, HP, IBM... Those are just a few I looked up. I didn't look up the ones you did. But I think you're sort of making my point. Do you believe Dell pays better than at least one or two of the companies I listed?

Re: 500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

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Post by miketromba »

danpalmer wrote: post #13

This data is really not that useful, or doesn't reflect what the simple title suggests it does. There doesn't appear to be any attempt to control for job level, and it's not even clear how one would control for such a thing. Public company stock and private company stock appear to be valued the same which may be true on the surface, but is a wild misrepresentation of reality (in many ways). Different companies need d…

Agreed, added a wall of disclaimers to clarify what it is and what it isn't.

Re: 500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

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Post by networkchad »

darth_avocado wrote: post #9

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.

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Re: 500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

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Post by VirusNewbie »

ghaff wrote: post #33
VirusNewbie wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Akamai, HP, IBM... Those are just a few I looked up. I didn't look up the ones you did. But I think you're sort of making my point. Do you believe Dell pays better than at least one or two of the companies I listed?

I mean, yes? IBM is known for having absolute shit pay for engineers. I don't know anyone who has worked at HP in software either, so I'm not surprised it pays poorly. I've never even heard it brought up.

Re: 500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

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Post by Matthias247 »

darth_avocado wrote: post #3

Is this new offers only? Because it matters a lot. I know people who joined Facebook an year ago when the stock was at rock bottom and are now making 800k+ as a Senior, mostly due to stock appreciation. (And thus reporting as such on levels.fyi)

It seems extracted from levels, so it's about whatever people report there.

Re: 500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

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Post by runamuck »

VirusNewbie wrote: post #17

I don't work at TGS, but I have a feeling they're much higher on average than this shows. I've seen their recruiting emails, they are happy to hint at being able to 3x whatever someone's current comp is.

Which TGS? Total Global Sports or the TGS Energy Data Company?
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