Meta paid gamers salary packages approaching $1 million. Facebook’s owner is now in financial trouble.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/07/meta-developer-salary-metaverse-investment/ "Programmers capable of building out virtual reality-powered games, apps and technology can earn total compensation from $600,000 to packages approaching $1 million, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters." And they're working on a solution looking for a problem. They'll be laid off soon enough #meta
600k-1m is not too far away from market price. game developers have certain skillsets in areas that 99% of devs don't have
Developers at gaming studios don't make anything close to 600k and work crazy hours.
Surely it's market price at faang
In what universe (or metaverse) is Facebook in financial trouble? Why are reporters such regards
This thread is the exact reason why we need to have so many layoff in the industry
No, this is the reason https://www.wsj.com/articles/these-tech-workers-say-they-were-hired-to-do-nothing-762ff158
What's wrong with Meta SWE getting paid Meta SWE TC? It's nice seeing my fellow game devs not getting low balled cuz of "passion".
Some people living in lcol don’t know that 1m salary does not mean you are living like zuckerberg himself