People say you should work at startups because that's where the interesting work (and money) is. That's backwards! http://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/ …
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Offer numbers from someone with two years of experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15841738 …pic.twitter.com/WCq4EgISsI
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Median comp package at FB is $240k/yr (this number is skewed low since it's over all employees, not just engineers): https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-facebook-median-pay-tops-240-000-1523924535 …. Google, Amazon, etc. pay similarly. Combined, these companies employ > 100k programmers in the U.S out of maybe 3M-ish programmers
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Can you give a bit more background on either of these? What skill sets make them worth that much?
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I don't think the precise skillset matters that much? I often work with comp arch folks who are in range of (1) and comp arch is an untrendy field that people don't go into for the money (BTW I think (2) wouldn't happen because startups don't think they want comp arch folks)
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Can you expand more on "senior"? 5+ years of experience? 10+? Or fewer?
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Number of years of experience is mostly irrelevant. Senior is the job title, number of years of experience could be any number. Was < 5 in one of the two cases above.
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Why did you only ask for 205k for 2? Not downplaying your point, just skeptical of the comparison with different baselines
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It wasn't me and you're probably not going to get a good response if you ask for $450k from a startup for a normal engineering role. There's no comparison there.
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isn't the company supposed to ask first?
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Yep, these were both people responding when asked to name a number, but I couldn't fit the preface into twitter's character limit
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Also didn't fit: companies said yes immediately, implying significant headroom.
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