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Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp... by manfredo on Thursday November 15, 2018 @04:27PM (#18463528)
> I'm kind of surprised they listed a $140k starting pay. That's pretty low for new grads in the industry and very low for Facebook.

If it's just salary, not including equity, that's by no means "very low". Where are you finding that new grads are typically getting more?

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Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp... by RandomInteger4 on Thursday November 15, 2018 @04:43PM (#18463683)
I'm assuming this is a California thing? That's like beyond senior level pay over here in the mid west, lol.
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Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp... by manfredo on Thursday November 15, 2018 @05:06PM (#18463904)
140k including equity is not unheard of. 90k-120k base salary plus a few tens of thousands in equity is a typical range for a new grad in SV. Chances are they'll still live with room mates, though because housing costs are high. Not to mention the 10-20k that is paid in California income taxes. So it probably balances out.
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Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp... by techelitism on Thursday November 15, 2018 @05:25PM (#18464049)
Total compensation obviously because FB stock is liquid. New grad salary is in the $110-115k range at FB. I know a few companies that do pay it or more base (2Sigma, Snowflake Computing and Jane Street come to mind).

I had offers for $130k base, $130k base + equity and $130k base + bonus and those were considered to be below average by most of my peers.

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