then compare to the percentage of people who land jobs at software companies that pay competitively (Google, FB, Amazon, etc.) and...
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That ignores stock, the largest component of compensation. That's like removing salary for lawyers!
Total comp for an ok (not amazing) "senior" offer today (4-N years exp.) is $300k. Glassdoor shows $266k, but that's low per @rkoutnik
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On the exception side, my 1st team at MS offered a new grad $250k total comp; he had similar offers from FB, Google, and Apple.
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*exceptional. He left 1.5 years later for numbers in the range we're talking about here and turned down a significantly higher counter-offer
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For people with 6+ years of exp. at some places, numbers like that are mundane. Hard to pass the silly filters, but that's another story.
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