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Re:Go West by ummonk on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @06:51PM (#18071230)
Almost half the compensation comes from stock grants, which Glassdoor doesn’t measure. Look up what people have entered in the levels.fyi spreadsheet if you want to see actual comp.
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Re:Go West by urda on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @06:59PM (#18071274)
Those values are almost always inflated upwards and should be taken with a few grains of salt.
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Re:Go West by ummonk on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @08:22PM (#18071655)
I recently did a lot of interviewing and found the levels.fyi numbers very accurate to the offers / potential offers I was seeing.
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Re:Go West by swiftcoder on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @09:57PM (#18072092)
They also depend heavily on the performance of the company in question. Amazon's stock went up 8x in the 6 years I worked there, so the original numbers vastly underestimate the reality.
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