garciasn
8 hours ago
From the article:
the top of the pay scale were elite ai labs such as Openai, as well as hedge funds such as Jane Street that are also betting heavily on machine learning. In this tier, median pay exceeded $400,000 a year. Below that were tech giants including Alphabet, Microsoft and, until recently, Meta, where median pay was closer to $300,000. Experienced developers at most other companies earn much less. Their median was around $180,000 (see chart 2).
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A median of 180K is mostly definitely raking it in compared to the median of all US employees.
I’m well over double the household median income in my metro area and while I don’t feel like I’m raking it in, I guess I am when compared to others.
This just seems like a silly article.
leoqa
7 hours ago
I’ve been making over $500k a year since 2020 working fully remote; everyone I know with 7+ YOE at big tech or unicorns is also making 500k TC which often appreciates to ~700k+ with the current market.
We’re just writing dumb gRPC services that use Postgres. I work probably 30 hours a week and still get awards, bonuses etc.
ycombinatornews
4 hours ago
Offtopic - what kind of unicorns now hire fully remote people with that experience?
mixmastamyk
3 hours ago
Do tell, I’m very good at my job and can’t get an interview. :-D
VirusNewbie
7 hours ago
Microsoft really getting lucky with being grouped in with FAANG in this article, but everything I've read says they pay far lower than most top tier tech companies, no?
It's certainly true by comparing "senior" at G/Amazon/Apple to Microsoft, but is there level skew that compensates for this?
ashdksnndck
16 minutes ago
Combine the level skew with stock appreciation and high employee count, and there are a lot of Microsoft engineers raking in that kind of money. So lots of people think of it as competitive even if there are also many working there for less.