The problem with Blind is that it gathers mostly obsessive people with short attention spans, and those obsessions cause a lot of exaggeration or straight up bullshittery.

It's like reading "leaks from people working at intelligence agency X", you just can't tell what is exaggeration, what are lies, so you end up a bit dumber usually.

> The problem with Blind is that it gathers mostly obsessive people with short attention spans, and those obsessions cause a lot of exaggeration or straight up bullshittery.

I disagree with this sentiment, it might gather "obsessive people with short attention spans", but it doesn't mean their data is wrong. there is no way I can prove it to you, because anything can be faked. But from personal experience can tell you that Staff engineers easily make 400k+

Yeah, in "prime locations", I know that. But I know it because of other sources, and to some extent despite Blind.

There's just too much rumor there written with full confidence.

I was about to comment how funny it is that self reported salaries here are in the 100-200s, while on blind every post-adolescent twat straight out of college claims to make north of 350k.

IMO HN posters are much smarter and more productive on average than blind posters. Makes me think salaries strongly correlate mostly with how much tedious algorithm trivia one can crank out.