Re:Panic at the Job Market
by screye on Thursday July 18, 2024 @08:32AM
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Who is making $3 million/yr at Google ?
A Google L9/M3 makes $2 million/yr (per levels.fyi). I feel like a sucker, but I don't know a single person who's made L9/M3 at FANG before 30, and wasn't also the shining star of their Ivy-league CS class or the slimiest ladder climber I've set my eyes on. The exceptions are acqui-hire startup founders, but again, that's just amortized compensation as part of acquisition package. High risk - high reward.
I have close friends at Deepmind/ FAIR and even they don't make more than a million. I'd say Nvidia and OpenAI folks are the only exception, and both were anomalous one-time spikes. (HFT is usually not considered part of the tech world per-se)
A Google L9/M3 makes $2 million/yr (per levels.fyi). I feel like a sucker, but I don't know a single person who's made L9/M3 at FANG before 30, and wasn't also the shining star of their Ivy-league CS class or the slimiest ladder climber I've set my eyes on. The exceptions are acqui-hire startup founders, but again, that's just amortized compensation as part of acquisition package. High risk - high reward.
I have close friends at Deepmind/ FAIR and even they don't make more than a million. I'd say Nvidia and OpenAI folks are the only exception, and both were anomalous one-time spikes. (HFT is usually not considered part of the tech world per-se)