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symbolepro commented on Compare career levels across companies   levels.fyi/SE/Google/Face... · Posted by u/kposehn
seattleeng · 7 years ago
Huge fan of this site, for two reasons:

- It lets “outsiders” to the tech scene understand salary and levels at big companies. If you went to MIT you probably already have frat brothers/sorority sisters or an alumni network that consists of senior engineers at these big companies that know the promotion and compensation schemes well. But if you were an equally smart student who went to a non target school, many of these organizational “open secrets” are hidden and must be earned through work experience, which costs time and career opportunity.

- Even if you do have some access to a network, these schemes evolve over time. Salary especially (levels not so much). Having up to date data is huge for assessing options during a job search or even planning for one.

The site isn’t perfect— a lot of the leveling data is subjective AFAICT and not based on cross company moves, and the comp info seems a bit skewed for some companies and more senior roles. But its a huge step in the right direction towards empowering employees.

symbolepro · 7 years ago
And to the "outsiders" from outside US, it should be written that 40-45 percent is taken away as taxes. So, if someone is making a total comp of 200k, it is basically 120k. This should be written in bold on this website.

Actually i would say, instead of having these charts which compare total comp, its better to have a survey on how much people save after rent, taxes, and basic living expenses (not including loans etc.)

symbolepro commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
mikepiech · 7 years ago
Game Closure | Engineer | SALARY: $120k - $220k | San Francisco Bay area (SF) | Tokyo, Japan | VISA REMOTE

Game Closure is building the world’s most advanced javascript game technologies, including an engine, server infrastructure, analytics and marketing, among other cool products. We are hiring senior engineers who can tackle architecture and APIs for our game technology on small teams of 3-4 folks. Game Closure has raised more then $30M, and has more than 100M users supported by a small team of engineers <25

For flavor: our last project was to use redux as a server state timeline for 100M+ players; before that we used code mods to port it from our propriety module and class system to es6. There are numerous projects coming up, such as first class typescript support to facilitate better tooling and API documentation, a facial tracking/AR engine, and a react-powered webgl-based UI system.

We have projects for hosted real-time multiplayer gaming, social gaming, cross-compilation to native platforms, and many other core infrastructure tools that we would welcome your support on defining and creating.

Our technologies engine have already been in front of tens of millions of users, and we’re adding millions of new users monthly. This is a high leverage position, and very senior. We welcome remote for certain folks, because we’re looking to build the best small engineering team in the world, but we prefer to hire in Tokyo and Mountain View.

We are also actively looking for folks across range of leadership roles in product, engineering, and operations.

Please email linda@gameclosure.com

Subject: Game Closure Engineering: YOUR NAME HERE

Please include a personal note about your background and interests so we can prioritize your application!

symbolepro · 7 years ago
I applied to this company a year ago. I completed the assignment which took a lot of time, and gave 2 interviews but this sh*t company never responded me back. Please avoid applying at such company who does not care about your time and effort.
symbolepro commented on Ask HN: How much do you earn (and save) as a software engineer in bay area?    · Posted by u/symbolepro
cam3ham · 7 years ago
$200K - $500K vested over 4 years.

So approx. ~$100K average per year.

symbolepro · 7 years ago
And after 4 years?
symbolepro commented on Ask HN: How much do you earn (and save) as a software engineer in bay area?    · Posted by u/symbolepro
itamarst · 7 years ago
They also get stock or options, though... and for Google that'll be a lot of liquid money.
symbolepro · 7 years ago
How much stock do google employees get yearly 9n average which is liquid ?

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