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Re:Anybody ever interviewed at SpaceX before? by metabro on Monday June 26, 2023 @04:22AM (#36477128)
Senior sw make a base salary of 165k and principal at 216k. Do you. Consider these low?

https://www.levels.fyi/companies/spacex/salaries/software-en...

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Re:Anybody ever interviewed at SpaceX before? by thewildginger on Monday June 26, 2023 @08:47AM (#36479037)
For something as specialized as aerospace engineering software? Definitely yes.
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Re:Anybody ever interviewed at SpaceX before? by badpun on Monday June 26, 2023 @09:34AM (#36479488)
Plenty of difficult, ultraspecialized jobs don't pay much, because they're in industries with low margins.
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Re:Anybody ever interviewed at SpaceX before? by speedgoose on Monday June 26, 2023 @10:39AM (#36480201)
Seems to be supply and demand thing. It’s easier to attract people to work in the space industry, or the video game industry, than in the ads industry or the data driven PowerPoint slides for the management industry.
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Re:Anybody ever interviewed at SpaceX before? by garciasn on Monday June 26, 2023 @09:32AM (#36479468)
Assuming their revenue is really moving from 4.5b to 11b+ in 2023, yes. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/rocket-report-spacex....
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Re:Anybody ever interviewed at SpaceX before? by nagyf on Monday June 26, 2023 @02:51PM (#36484071)
You can get higher salary with writing REST apis in Ruby. And fully remote
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Re:Anybody ever interviewed at SpaceX before? by VirusNewbie on Monday June 26, 2023 @03:57PM (#36484974)
That is quite low. Senior level at most FAANGs will pay quite a bit more than that in salary and the RSUs will be more liquid.
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Re:Anybody ever interviewed at SpaceX before? by b20000 on Monday June 26, 2023 @05:45PM (#36486295)
a decent quality house in a te ch metro is 1.5-2 million

so you are looking at 14k per month in payments

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Re:Anybody ever interviewed at SpaceX before? by ttymck on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @09:59AM (#36492877)
Aren't they mostly in Los Angeles? Yes that's low, and it's especially low for writing spaceship software.
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