The data source for this data is [Levels.fyi](http://Levels.fyi) and tools used to create it are Plotly and [Levels.fyi](http://Levels.fyi) pages.
odin_the_wiggler on
NVDA engies are getting shafted
FRP2814 on
Wild how the ‘median’ at these companies is already a dream salary for most people. The scale alone tells the whole story.
a_rather_small_moose on
> I’ve worked with a lot of Xooglers in my career (heck, I worked there myself). I now consider it to be a serious negative on someone’s resume to have worked at Google. The many ex-Google coworkers I’ve had have (even when they’ve been otherwise brilliant) been uniformly less capable of working on non-Google systems than their much more junior equivalents with other backgrounds. All big companies have their own proprietary technology stacks, but the degree to which Googlers never learn how to do anything without involving protocol buffers, bigtable, and a mile-high stack of other proprietary tools is frankly remarkable. And they spread this to everything new they touch.
Amazon has really upped their comp game in the last few years. I had a 3 way fight between Google, Facebook, and AWS, and AWS dropped out first because they had an arbitrary salary cap.
Comically_Online on
i’m too unemployed to even look at this chart
Ell_Sonoco on
A really weird choice to me that this plot seems to order the boxes by… 25% quantile value?
rfgrunt on
What’s a senior engineer experience wise here? Senior can mean the next level after entry or the max distinction
Edit: Next not best
GreatnessToTheMoon on
Based Meta. Zuckerberg wins again. All hail the Zuck
nanlinr on
Why is there so many more Meta entries?
OscarCookeAbbott on
In Australia it’s around USD $250k total annual compensation average across the big tech companies.
gruesnack on
This is not helpful to most people without including specific per company level distribution. Senior is the middle of the ladder/pay band for some companies and towards the top for others that don’t have exec equivalent Senior Staff/Tech Staff etc. SWE roles.
![[OC] Mag 7 Senior Software Engineer Total Compensation Pay Distribution](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/b8axnj7hhw2g1-902x1024.png "[OC] Mag 7 Senior Software Engineer Total Compensation Pay Distribution")
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The data source for this data is [Levels.fyi](http://Levels.fyi) and tools used to create it are Plotly and [Levels.fyi](http://Levels.fyi) pages.
NVDA engies are getting shafted
Wild how the ‘median’ at these companies is already a dream salary for most people. The scale alone tells the whole story.
> I’ve worked with a lot of Xooglers in my career (heck, I worked there myself). I now consider it to be a serious negative on someone’s resume to have worked at Google. The many ex-Google coworkers I’ve had have (even when they’ve been otherwise brilliant) been uniformly less capable of working on non-Google systems than their much more junior equivalents with other backgrounds. All big companies have their own proprietary technology stacks, but the degree to which Googlers never learn how to do anything without involving protocol buffers, bigtable, and a mile-high stack of other proprietary tools is frankly remarkable. And they spread this to everything new they touch.
[source](https://www.roguelazer.com/blog/etcd/)
Who tf convinced Meta to pay them almost 800k as a senior and how do I get their negotiation skills
So the CEO who’s thought to have already [killed 600,000 people](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-shutdown-of-usaid-has-already-killed-hundreds-of-thousands) (according to [an online tracker](https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard) by a Boston University modeller) by shutting down USAID when he ran DOGE is still able to hire engineers for way less money than his competitors?
Depressing.
Amazon has really upped their comp game in the last few years. I had a 3 way fight between Google, Facebook, and AWS, and AWS dropped out first because they had an arbitrary salary cap.
i’m too unemployed to even look at this chart
A really weird choice to me that this plot seems to order the boxes by… 25% quantile value?
What’s a senior engineer experience wise here? Senior can mean the next level after entry or the max distinction
Edit: Next not best
Based Meta. Zuckerberg wins again. All hail the Zuck
Why is there so many more Meta entries?
In Australia it’s around USD $250k total annual compensation average across the big tech companies.
This is not helpful to most people without including specific per company level distribution. Senior is the middle of the ladder/pay band for some companies and towards the top for others that don’t have exec equivalent Senior Staff/Tech Staff etc. SWE roles.