As in UK based Apple employees?
5 years back you would only get to that level as a massively prolific contractor. Maybe I should move back to the UK! :)
If you told me 190k for a senior role I'd totally buy that.
The pressure on them is quite high. I'm not sure I'd like to work for Apple.
If I got offered a job, I'd add smooth scrolling and SGR 53 support to Terminal.app and quit immediately after it's released.
Maybe fix text colors beyond what xterm256 offers.
I see Citi do not post salaries on their job adverts, so we can't comparison shop.
If you want to check what I've written for my experience my LinkedIn has it: https://www.linkedin.com/in/intunderflow
Main differences were:
- There was no interview, I spoke to a Director for 15 minutes who happened to be visiting a professor I knew at University (sheer luck/fluke).
- Building a team of full time employees as an intern is pretty unusual. That team went on after my internship.
- Really open-ended (I was just dropped into the Data Science team and told "do something useful").
In any case though, that comp seems pretty typical nowadays, folks I know at Apple are on 250k and that's considered normal.