I've seen one too many garbage company-ranking lists on this site. So here is the official list, methodology is based on senior swe salaries + prestige: Tier 0: HRT, Jane Street (Top Quant Firms) Tier 1: Google, Facebook, Netflix, Snap, Stripe, Robinhood, Pinterest, Airbnb, Two Sigma, Citadel, Databricks (Prestige or $400K+ TC for senior) Tier 1.5: Uber, Lyft, Twitter, TikTok, Apple, Slack, Coinbase Tier 2: Amazon, Microsoft, DoorDash, Snowflake, Roblox, Wish, LinkedIn, Square, Splunk, Salesforce (300K+) Tier 3: Tableau, Bloomberg, Quora, Palantir, Datadog, Yelp, IBM, Oracle, Adobe, PayPal, Twilio, Visa, GS, Morgan Stanley, Nvidia, Walmart Labs, etc (<300K) Tier 💩: WITCH (💩 TC < 200K)
I’m gonna say it. Amazon > Google
Multimillionaire new grads at snowflake disagrees I guess
Although illiquid, conservatively speaking, my TikTok equity is worth $10-14M and I’m $450k TC with pretty low YOE. Seems like Tier 0 pay.
Why is Splunk > Datadog?
Datadog had huge growth this year. Stock went from $40 to $100+ Boosts the TC
LOL IBM
Lol. Here I am couldn’t clear any of the tier 2 or 3 and I could only pass Google interview recently and currently at FB
Square is 1 or 1.5. Msft is definitely not in same bucket as amzn or LinkedIn
Interchange Microsoft and Uber
Prob not because criteria are senior swe TC and Prestige. The company isn't doing well right now but for those two categories Uber > MSFT especially in TC
At senior levels msft comp is really competitive. Also many smart folks left uber recently and guess where they went for rest & vest
Tier -1: Rentech
Tier -1 would be something you had real equity and control over making 7 figures in a tax optimized manner.
Isn't somewhere like tgs mgmt more lucrative than rentech?
Two Sigma should be lower than Citadel
Technically yes, I was debating whether to put Citadel in tier 0 or 1 but I wasn’t going to move two sigma down so it is what it is
Why cita not tier0?