I am new to blind and I see lot of people less than 5 years of experience make 350+. What is the normal salary of network engineers with 10 YOE in FAANG in Bay Area? Is it only SWE who makes that money? Forgot to add <250k in the poll. Please put in comments if it’s less than 250 TC: 250k
Probably less than 250 but it really depends on your skill level and specializations.
Unfortunately Ops usually gets paid less 15-20% less than SWE unless coding is part of the interview process, then companies are willing to pay in the same band. I suggest you learn Python and do LC if you want to exponentially increase your compensation. But I’m an Ops guy (with dev/scripting experience) making 180K TC with 5 YoE working remote in a LCOL city for a tier 2/3 tech company based out the Bay
<250
On paper it always looks like $300K+ ... it’s mainly due to RSUs, but as a human tendency, 80% of the ppl do panic sell when the stock is dropping. I must say ... all these $200K to $350K guyz get bucketed into $220K to $240K range :-) ...if you are making $200K+ , you are good 👍 ....rest all due to company’s position, not the individuals abilities!
Who’s panic selling? Most employees are in lockup and have trading windows shortly after earnings announcements each quarter for about 3 weeks. There isn’t much panicking
try doing historical analysis, when employees get the trading window open, stocks tend to move in the reverse direction. Insiders create panic sell. 80% of the ppl panic sold their stocks in March 2020 due to Covid crisis. They were bag holders for long time and ended up selling at breakeven or tiny losses :-)
12 yoe, 510K
How many YoE and where you located?
Can you pls give example of company names that will pay 400-500 band? Are you currently making 374 at Salesforce?
Move to Cloud and learn to build infra with Terraform. You’ll earn like the rest of Blind.
Network engineer hand-rolling router/switch configs? Peanuts. Network engineer using automation to push out and manage configs - $$ Network engineer creating automation for above - $$$ Network engineer doing the above in cloud providers in complex network setups - $$$ Lead/Manager creating an automation platform for the above - $$$$ Key is trying to figure out how to scale/automate your work to the point that anything you do can be accomplished with a single git commit/merge.
There are network engineers at the top of their field that do zero automation and make $$$$. It's about being at the top of your game. You make it sound like you can't make $$$$ as a network engineer just because you are not learning python/go/ansible/teraform etc. Yes automation is important and that's the direction most network engineers should go to but automation only helps with deployment or operations. I don't need a network engineer to automate design need when the time comes I need someone who understands the nitty gritty of the network. You can only automate what is already designed and im not gonna look for someone who can atomate when I need a very high level architecture design. There is room for different kinds of network engineers.
True but I would think automation implies design skill. I can’t imagine anyone wanting to hand-jam any sort of configs and creating a bunch of one-offs, especially with a non-basic network design
$$$$$ is for Network Architect who can design networks and also understand the role of software in the network. Network designs have gotten much simpler tbh.
If you can code just a little you can make 400+
I don’t think so. Even if you code a little with 10 year experience the most you can make will be around 300K.
I have been in the industry for years and know multiple folks making that much in bay area.