• Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 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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      7 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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        7 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.