• cbarrick@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Are you a senior or staff software engineer for a multinational tech company in the Bay Area or NYC?

    $450k is typical in that case.

    • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 months ago

      Seniors are usually pulling around $200k in NYC, plus stock worth around $100k. Still crazy high, but not nearly $450k unless they’ve been there for a very long time, and the high CoL makes it worth about half of that.

      Staff engineers, as in those who write 4 lines of code a year, are closer to $450k

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        8 months ago

        Staff engineers get paid the big bucks to spend all day in meetings so the rest of us don’t have to.

        Worth it.

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          7 months ago

          Hello, I’d like to apply to be staff engineer, I will even accept a lower salary if I can call the client/user a dumbass for contradicting themselves during the meeting

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          8 months ago

          Yeah, that’s net including ~$100k of stock distributed over 4 years. The base starting is around $130k for a low level SWE. As the years to by, the base salary goes up to a little over $200k for seniors, but the stock refreshes aren’t usually as large as the initial.

          Of course, it also depends on how the company is doing as a whole. Lately Googs has been struggling and laying off people.