How undervalued am I?
I have 3-4 YoE professionally. Started my own company 10 years ago and have been building software since then. It has had minor success. I've held principal devops and lead software engineer roles previously and had success. My TC is only 120k with about 30,000 shares in the company I'm at now. I was making roughly 160k earlier this year but it was setup with 3-4 managers with full authority to override each other all managing a team of 5 ops engineers. Can't reliably get any interviews and during those interviews no company seems to be able to afford higher than "market rate". EDIT: For those curious on my experience, I haven't found many problems where I'm just stumped in finding a solution. I've been able to construct database adapters, query builders, realtime applications, highly consistent distributed systems, and have built out my own fully automated CI/CD system. Location: Santa Monica
Double check the answers you get here on paysa.com, would be interested to hear if it's close at all. Paysa seems interesting but I never really feel I can trust most these sites.
Checked, I'm supposedly on the high end of SWE, I guess my experience puts me in the position of a principal software engineer.
Paysa, Glassdoor etc are highly inaccurate when it comes to FAANG comp just as an FYI.
principal with under 4yoe. Perhaps its a credibility issue. HMs will reject based on this criteria. Stand out more, put some working ci code on github. Better off with people who will take you at face value.
That's the other thing I guess is I don't do that much open source work. I have a few projects now. I definitely think my resume looks like I'm just flat out lying because I also went to university part time and graduated semi-recently.
Do you need to put the University graduation date in your resume? Just put the degree or whatever below your resume if it matters, but leave it undated. Unless your industry really cares about paper, your experience should be more heavily highlighted.
120k base sounds good for 3-4 years of exp in LA. I think the higher TC comes from working in the Bay. Best way to raise TC is to get a bidding war between two companies.
We're hiring and we definitely need people with distributed systems experience. Our main office is in West Hollywood. We should easily beat your former TC if you're as good as you think you are :). DM me if you want to discuss further.
You know OP’s BATNA now..
I applied to Tinder actually a few months ago. I was denied for a software role because my most recent history has been SRE work. I also don't know where tinder is exactly going in general as a company. Besides quenching the thirst of the teenage population
Tinder quenches the thirst of all age demographics :)
Location? 150k TC is pretty decent as an average across SWE with 3-4 year experience. Don’t get bamboozled by the numbers here on Blind - most are inflated.
West LA, and it's 30,000 options, not 30k in value.
For CA high density areas, that seems low. Work on Leetcode and apply to other companies, proactively reach out to recruiters, and prod your LI network or here Blind for referrals. Especially since the 30k is options, not RSUs