Agreed that Blind is a crap community, but their numbers are more accurate than I've seen anywhere else (including levels.fyi).
https://www.teamblind.com/articles/Topics
this is it? any reason for the toxicity? poor moderation?
Yep. Anonymity is the focus, so people are more than happy to air their racist and sexist laundry. Lots of 4chan-style garbage. In terms of career advice, it's also very mercenary and salary-driven.
Re:My Salary Progression in Tech
by beeskneecaps on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:21PM
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Every post on there ends up looking like this HN thread.
Some would say it is highly toxic, so make sure to set an aggressive screen-time limit. It is not healthy to read so much depressing content.
$240k seems in the range of normal for most of the FAANGs. Of course it can go much higher.
It doesn’t seem like the typical new hire just out of undergrad gets that much to start.