Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting
by ffggvv on Sunday November 15, 2020 @02:29AM
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you’re comparing fang to average startup. instead you should compare fang to top tier startup. as that’s the choice people who get fang offers make... in almost all examples i can think of, the top tier startup pays more.
furthermore before they were fang companies, google was the top tier startup and IBM was the equivalent to FANG.
Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting
by kortilla on Sunday November 15, 2020 @02:57AM
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> in almost all examples i can think of, the top tier startup pays more.
WeWork and Airbnb want a word.
Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting
by whimsicalism on Sunday November 15, 2020 @11:15AM
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> a word.
A word about what? Their salaries are certainly competitive with, if not higher paying than, Google and Stripe's are objectively higher.
Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting
by kortilla on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @12:52AM
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Not according to public info. When I left Google an L5 was commonly clearing 500k in liquid comp. Airbnb and WeWork weren’t even close and that was before the implosions.
Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting
by ffggvv on Sunday November 15, 2020 @11:27AM
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airbnb pays a lot more than google lol. and they are actually doing great now despite layoffs at the realllt beginning of covid
But generally I think the OP is correct: working for FAANG has made many, many people far more money over the past decade than they would have otherwise made on average in a startup.
I suspect that eventually the tide will turn, as it always does. The companies will get middle-manager bloat, MBAs and accountants start pinching pennies, systems get dragged down in technical debt, and more nimble competitors eventually outcompete. But we're not there yet.