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0 pointszten5y ago0 comments

> Is this really a thing?

There's outrageous equity offered by like 5 companies. Everybody else is getting stock option grants worth 5-10% of what Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft are offering (the situation is a little different for Netflix).

> Am I a giant dumbass for staying in Colorado?

Probably not, Colorado is great.

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xenihn5y ago

There are a few other companies that consistently give offers with TC approaching $500k to senior engineers, where the non-salary portion of the comp consists of RSUs that are immediately sellable upon vesting (like FAANG), as opposed to stock options. I'm sure I'm missing some, but these are the ones that I could think of off the top of my head (verified with levels.fyi):

- Snap

- Pinterest

- Lyft (though their stock is hurting right now, they still have top-band comp)

And then there's HFT, where $500k is probably considered average, but I guess that may as well be a completely different industry.

If we want to drop down to approaching $400k, you can add:

- Dropbox

- Square

Also I don't think Microsoft should be on your list unless you're specifically referring to LinkedIn's SF and Sunnyvale offices.

Note that getting $500k+ TC offers as a senior is still exceptional even in the Bay Area (look at levels.fyi). Netflix is supposed to be the most consistent when it comes to giving offers in that range (and all-cash too). Whereas if four senior engineers got four offers each from other companies on the list, they would likely range between $300k and $500k before negotiation.

ztenOP5y ago

I appreciate the fixes to what I said. I mistakenly thought Microsoft offered a more generous RSU package.

What I wanted to emphasize, mostly, was that there exists a tier of companies that offer stratospheric compensation primarily through equity, but there are many more people working at other publicly-traded companies that offer RSUs that are worth closer to what you might consider to be a yearly bonus.

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