One reason it’s not obvious is that several findings of my analysis aligned neatly with things the recruiter told me about the company’s comp structure.

I know there is bias in who enters data on levels, but is there something else that makes it garbage data? Can you elaborate? Because I have never seen it as 'garbage data' and would like to know more.

This is not obvious to me. I had access to comp data at two different companies and Levels data was pretty accurate across the board.

I’ve never seen it be close to any job I’ve ever had access to data for