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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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Can't speak to the accuracy of the salaries, but it's a handy list of "higher paying" tech companies for those applying right now. Nice to have it all in one place.

Assuming a decent amount don't still have hiring freezes. I know one of them definitely does. At least in the US.

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

Talk about an absolute squandering of capital.

This is total comp so probably an inflated value given that opensea equity is most likely worth zero?

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?

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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

OpenSea still being a thing is insane to me.

Re: 500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

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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…

Would accounting for years of experience control for job level somewhat? That's the only info that could be extracted

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.

Are you suggesting that people are putting in bad data to Levels.fyi? Because the data wasn't extracted out of thin air, or made up.

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.

How would you know they're inaccurate, unless you work in HR and know everyone's salaries? Just because the median is lower or higher than you or your immediate peers doesn't mean it's inaccurate, because you might have a bias

Re: 500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Talk about an absolute squandering of capital.

This is total comp so probably an inflated value given that opensea equity is most likely worth zero?

This is why total comp is so flawed, especially if it's a private company. Equity can be a $0. Should have options to see only salaries
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