Compensation Tiers of Companies for Tech Jobs
By popular demand, I'm reposting one of my replies on another thread. This tiering is based on both trajectory and overall scale of total comp (base+bonus+stock) for IC positions. Edit: subsidiaries with the same pay go under the parent (e.g. Twitch and Amazon) Based off of all the comp data points I've seen across blind/cscq/HN/google forms.. This is my tiering: Public: 1. Snapchat, Facebook, Linkedin, Google, Twitter, Apple, Amazon (L6+ only), Dropbox, Netflix, Microsoft (L64-66+ only), Cruise, Jet, Splunk, Roku, Oracle (OCI), Tableau, Cloudera 2. Microsoft (<L64), Box, Amazon (L4-L5), Nutanix, Square, Yahoo (Oath), Yelp, Salesforce, Paypal, Zendesk, WalmartLabs, Spotify, Twilio + {insert top financial services companies with high tech spend.. e.g. Goldman} 3. Adobe, VMware, eBay, Autodesk, Groupon, Unity, Zynga, Nvida, Intuit 4. NetApp, Qualcomm, Oracle, Cisco, Tesla Untiered.. because meh pay: Samsung, HP, Dell, Sony, Intel, IBM, EA, Pixar, SAS, SAP Private: 1. Uber, Lyft, Quora, Airbnb, Pinterest, Stripe, Valve, Slack, Palantir + {insert all quant hedge funds and top prop shops} 2. {insert all other brand name startups or private tech companies} + Bloomberg 3. {insert early stage startups}
Interesting
Any pointers you want to throw in?
Tableau, Splunk, Roku are public. Oracle OCI be tier 1 at least pay wise
Nice man! Also interesting to compare the levels at some of these companies at http://levels.fyi
Those number are crazy out of date it seem. I'm lvl 62 at MSFT and I make more than the reported lvl 64 salary (both in base, cash bonus and stock)
Yeah I think the numbers for some companies may be off, why donāt you reach out to them with your TC/level?
Amazon and Twitch have the same comp but are not in same tier?
That's kind of why I posted it so we as a community could crowd source the changes
I don't think level 64 is as 64 as you think it is. In terms of comp, we're not on the same planet as Google and Facebook at level 64. Maybe 66...
Are the #1 private companies compensation on par with the #1 public ones? I have a few friend working for some of the companies in the list and it doesn't seem like they are doing that extraordinarily compared to most people in the top public ones.
My tier list, not based on compensation: Tier 0: Be your own boss Tier 1: Google, Facebook, Netflix Tier 2: Apple, Airbnb, Lyft, Uber, Square, Slack, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Robinhood Tier 3: Microsoft, Amazon, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Salesforce, Zillow, Snapchat, Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, Nvidia Tier 4: Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo/Verizon, SAP, Intel, Adobe, IBM, Intuit, eBay, PayPal, Juniper Tier 5: Everything else
Very helpful thanks!! š