PSA - The recent Dropbox AMA was a sham. OP was lying on multiple answers.

RE: COMPENSATION $240K could be possible if the person got a very high performance rating or was promoted after a year to IC2: [https://www.levels.fyi/companies/dropbox/salaries/software-engineer/levels/ic1](https://www.levels.fyi/companies/dropbox/salaries/software-engineer/levels/ic1) FAANG companies have stock compensation and bonuses that can multiple up to 10X so that's not actually that impossible, but it would be like a top 5% performer situation, or a top 20% who got promoted in a year.