As an experienced software engineer with a CS degree and having worked as an Individual Contributor for over 12+ years, finding some job is not hard but finding a job that pays well like FAANGs and other similar top tier companies is indeed very hard.

+1. Legal requirement for companies > 50 ppl.

Feedback: Could the companies selected be part of the URL? This helps sharing.

Thanks for the feedback – just added!

Here's an example URL: https://www.levels.fyi/benefits/?companies=Google,LinkedIn,B...

The sort order within a category is also wonky, making comparisons hard:

Google: - Health Insurance - On-Site Mother's Room - Fertility Assistance

Citadel: - On-Site Mother's Room - Health Insurance - Fertility Assistance

Yeah thanks for pointing it out. This was a very preliminary version, hoping to clean this up over the next few days

FAANGs have changed the compensation game in SF Bay Area, making joining startups for potential financial gains pointless. Benefits are just icing on the cake.

I wonder what techniques startups are using to recruit quality talent in the Bay Area.

Mission, fun work, and responsibility in my experience.

Being a tiny cog in a huge machine just doesn’t sound appealing to some people. Despite the financial rewards.

Benefits can be a lot more than icing! I live in a low CoL area that makes my on paper compensation seem comparable to at least junior FAANG salaries when factoring that in, but my company and nearly all others in the sector and region have me paying hundreds a month on premiums for health insurance with deductibles in the high single thousands - so it’s not so great a deal after all.

This is based on the presumption that quality talent joins FAANG. From what I've seen so far, it's mostly people that can leetcode their socks off that make it into FAANG.

Startups get people interested in the domain knowledge and everyone else that couldn't make it into FAANG. I agree that it is a bad financial move to join a startup if you could join FAANG instead.

> Startups get people interested in the domain knowledge.

This sounds like an actually good reason to join a startup (or other small company, or be an independent consultant).

I mean if you're told 100% of what you need to get into a FAANG company but can't that's all on you. Trying to brush it off as "leetcode their socks" vs preping for a test you know well in advance is hyperbole.

Most people at FAANG may not be very sharp, but very sharp people easily make it into FAANG and it's a much better deal than the majority of startups.

Question: why is Amazon included in this cohort but not Microsoft? The total comp packages I've seen from MS dwarf Amazon, which frankly is pretty middle of the road.

It doesn't fit in the acronym

What I usually see is both MS and Amazon are part of the "big 5" tech companies/"tech giants" where Netflix isn't. I think FAANG is really more about stock performance and hype in the past 5 or 6 years (though to be fair, MS has had a really good run in this time span as well).

For the record, having worked at both, this is definitely not true. Amazon and Microsoft have similar pay in many cases looking at levels, and in fact I received more to go to Amazon (and have seen many others do the same), though it clearly happens both ways. You can get a self-reported estimate of this looking at a different fyi site https://www.levels.fyi/SE/Amazon/Microsoft :)

Came here to mention about this movie. I watched this movie last year and couldn't stop thinking about it for days after watching it...

On a similar note, any chance of an immigration reform in medium term like 3-5 years that would help reduce the backlog for Indians on EB2/EB3? If not, any alternatives apart from EB5, EB1 that you could suggest?

I don't see the awful India EB2/3 backlog getting better without political intervention but I don't see this as a high priority at present.

I don't see a way to search within a company. Like salary of software engineers at level E5 at Facebook.

Ah yes this is a common feature request. We'll get to it soon! For now searching the company name in textbox + clicking on column sort may help.

SE daily is a great podcast with quality content on new topics in Computer Science. Jeff asks great questions and really tries to understand the mechanics of how things work. With an episode every day it's hard to keep up.

Bitwise has better diversification across top 10 currencies based on market cap. Coinbase has lower entry point of $10k minimum v/s $25k minimum required by Bitwise.