Frustrated with pay drop after the cliff. #engineering #software #swe TC after drop 550K, HCOL TC before cliff 970K, HCOL
I’ll take half the drop
Netflix, Snowflake, Google, Meta (paper) OpenAI, Databricks, Anthropic (in the order of interview difficulty)
Netflix is toughter to get in than Google?
You won't like this but Amazons pay for L7+ is at par with most places. Atleast for the first 4 years
nowadays it’s hard to judge comp because of stock appreciation. also at that level most companies give special grants (meta gives ae, google gives retention offers, etc), so it really depends on you, the team, etc. for example, I know people at meta who get ae every year which account for another 250k/year in stocks. I know people at google who got a fat 1m/year retention offer for four years.
Meta, openAI