u/michaelnovati replied ·
People on this thread are talking about total compensation, including bonuses and stock, and that’s why the range can be so high.
For base salary, at FAANG. you will be a mid level or possibly senior engineer. Based on your question I might lean mid level but you can send me your LinkedIn and I can give a better estimate if you want. So mid level is Google L4 and right now you would be looking at 150K base to $190K base. This is FAANG so at a smaller less known company, you might see an inflated title and $130 to $170K base.
Now the stock is where is gets interesting. At public companies, it’s almost like cash and a super critical part of your compensation.
I work with people that will often turn down higher base salaries for tremendous amounts of stock to more than make up for it.
Levels.fyi is great but it hides the variableness of the stock portion and the performance bonus portion. The company that someone I worked with almost 5X in their first year, so their stock was worth high hundreds of thousands of dollars on paper. Much higher than Levels.fyi would say. Similar people with high hundreds of thousands of Meta stock saw that get cut in half on paper.
So overall, the answer is that it’s complicated once you are getting experienced FAANG offers. I highly recommend working at a top tier company that is a good fit for you. The compensation will follow.