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A comment on Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering Managers. Parent comment

Re:Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering M... by iaresee on Thursday July 25, 2019 @08:38PM (#20531287)
If you exclude the CEO at many SV companies there are most certainly ICs who make as much as people at that level all over the Bay. Certainly that’s true at Square.
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Re:Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering M... by dilyevsky on Thursday July 25, 2019 @09:45PM (#20531654)
More like CEO, all other Cs, SVPs and VPs, then yeah! Basically principal tops out at sr director MAYBE
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Re:Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering M... by schrodinger on Thursday July 25, 2019 @10:05PM (#20531747)
That’s probably true, but there are a lot less highly paid ICs at the top than there are highly paid managers. So yes, you _can_ make the same, but your odds are a lot worse.
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Re:Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering M... by iaresee on Friday July 26, 2019 @10:01AM (#20534851)
I don’t disagree with the imbalance or odds. Impact required to be that highly paid an IC usually boils down to “create the thing the company earns a large portion of its revenue selling” which is tough to do, especially more than once.
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Re:Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering M... by bradleyjg on Thursday July 25, 2019 @09:10PM (#20531444)
I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying. Okay exclude the CEO (why though?), are you saying the second highest compensated person at Square is an IC?
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Re:Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering M... by iaresee on Thursday July 25, 2019 @10:28PM (#20531870)
Yes. The second highest paid person at Square is likely an IC. There are a number of year zero ICs there still that aren’t reporting to Jack.

Exclude the CEO because it’s a singular position. Only one person can be CEO. There’s no IC equivalent to it because it’s a unique position.

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