Interview with the creators of levels.fyi

The crowdsourced data on levels.fyi shows that software engineers get paid extremely well at companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft. Levels.fyi estimates that a Level 3 at Google, or an entry-level engineer who likely just graduated from college, should make $189,000 in total compensation, or about $124,000 in salary and $43,000 in stock compensation. “As a general trend, I think what happens is every time Google and Facebook realize they’re losing too many mid-level career folk, they bump the compensation level up,” said Harj Taggar, the founder of Triplebyte, a software company that places engineers at tech companies like Apple.

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