Re:Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1%
by user5994461 on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @08:37PM
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Staff is even one level above senior.
It's true that they make a lot of money, so do the owner of a SME or a director in a large organization. It's not a position most employees will ever attain in their lifetime.
Re:Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1%
by novok on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @09:01PM
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Directors are equivalent to staff +1 or staff +2. Staff engineers are usually equivalent to 2nd level middle managers, with 1st level are managers of teams that are just ICs). Jr Engineers can be 30-50% of an engineering organization. So it's not that impossible.
Re:Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1%
by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @09:30PM
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Director (L8) is two levels above staff engineer (L6) in Google. But promotions get exponentially more difficult after L5, particularly if you intend to stay as an IC.
Re:Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1%
by user5994461 on Thursday October 17, 2019 @01:44PM
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I meant director as a general title in corporations, not google specifically.
We aren't talking about stock options, we are talking about concrete RSUs with real valuations.
A Staff Engineer at Google can easily be vesting $200k in stocks alone each year.