How much years of experience did it take or do you think it should take to get to $300k?
3yrs. I’m a college dropout.
Years of experience of what? Webdev, system, sre, qa? Years of JS, C++, Java. IC or management? All these aspects are matter along with location
These days? I think 8 years is enough. If you are stellar, 5 is totally enough at FAANG. I have seen master grad come in with 300k package with little internship experience at FAANG. God knows why.
Btw, a lot of people who have $300k plus salaries, invested years in phd or mba. So need to account for that too.
Yeah, but having an advance degree doesn’t mean you get $300k automatically. It’s a rare case.
Yes and is usually quite the opposite lol
years of experience = years since BS.
Years since bullshitting? Cause you need that experience to fast track as well.
BS above meant Bachelors degree
I feel the question is not that meaningful with the inflation and stock bubble in recent years, most engineers in FLAANG and similar companies reach $300k during past 4 years regardless years of experiences
When you guys say TC, how do you count equity? e.g. let's say my base was $150K and RSUs of $200K over 4 years..is that $200K or $350K TC?
Haven't broken 300k yet, but finally got two offers close to it, depending on how you calculate YOE eithef 15 or 19.
Bay area?
Yeah, Bay Area. Actually broke 300k in practice one year because a private employer went public about 6 years after I started but that's a black swan event not my regular comp and if you divide by years my options there per year were only about 30k.
It took around 9 - 10 years for me when I broke 300k, but note that inflation and location matter a lot
Agreed. Starting salary has gone from 50K when I started to over 100K, even 130K. So this simple poll didn't take that into account
Ditto