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Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting by ffggvv on Sunday November 15, 2020 @02:29AM (#25099082)
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.

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Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting by kortilla on Sunday November 15, 2020 @02:57AM (#25099202)
> in almost all examples i can think of, the top tier startup pays more.

WeWork and Airbnb want a word.

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Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting by whimsicalism on Sunday November 15, 2020 @11:15AM (#25102257)
> a word.

A word about what? Their salaries are certainly competitive with, if not higher paying than, Google and Stripe's are objectively higher.

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Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting by kortilla on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @12:52AM (#25133628)
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.
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Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting by ffggvv on Sunday November 15, 2020 @11:27AM (#25102347)
airbnb pays a lot more than google lol. and they are actually doing great now despite layoffs at the realllt beginning of covid
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Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting by kortilla on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @12:53AM (#25133632)
Nah https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Airbnb,Google&track=Software...
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