I suspect I'll never write anything more impactful than this post. I've had a double digit number of people tell me they made life-changing amounts of money as a result of reading this post. What fraction of people who change jobs because of this post tell me? Probably < 1%?
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Naturally, the responses I got to this were (in exonentially. decreasing order of frequency): 1. That's BS. No one makes that much {outside SF|writing code|at all} 2. Duh. Everyone already knows this, why write it up? 3. I agree. Glad word is getting out 4. This changed my life
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Me: Conservative $ estimate @ big companies. BigCo employees: Yep, very conservative. Internet: Impossible! No one makes that much.
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Two recent negotiation stories from peeps: 1. Senior at BigCo, not SF: asked for $450k total comp, company said yes, asked if they'd prefer relatively more bonus or RSUs. 2. Senior at SF unicorn: asked for $205k salary, company came back with $220k salary (plus equity).
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@danluu not fair comparing with incredibly unusual big company such as Google -
@bdmurdock What does fair mean in this context? FB, Apple, Twitter, Netflix, Microsoft, Linkedin, Amazon, etc. all that pay much. - 9 more replies
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I was thinking about this - it has to be more, right? Looks like 75% chance of getting hired, given the application process. GAFA + MSFT and big startups... Assuming where he applied is a random sample, doesn't that account for more than 5% of all SWE positions?
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There's no way it's 1%; seems higher than 5%. There are supposedly ~3m programmers in the U.S. Google alone has ~30k engineers, so that's already 1% just at Google. Given typical interview pass rates (< 10% net), it's plausible that most programmers can get an interview.
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@danluu I'm suspicious of numbers, but the general premise is good. I've never heard of 5 year employees making 200+ -
@kevinbowling1 A friend of mine recently quit after 2 years at Google (making 200k) to take a position making 400k. Slightly unusual, but - 4 more replies
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