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Facebook Starting Salaries: What Tech Professionals Can Expect

27 points| SunTzu9087 | 6 years ago |insights.dice.com | reply

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[+] nscalf|6 years ago|reply
I can't vouch to how accurate it is, but I found levels.fyi interesting.
[+] 6cd6beb|6 years ago|reply
Are people really interested in working for facebook in this climate?
[+] theflyinghorse|6 years ago|reply
I am knees deep in debt and have to take care of ill family member. More money solves 99.9% of my problems
[+] rc_hadoken|6 years ago|reply
Yes. Some people aren't so well off that they read the news and cut off a good income because of. Picture this: youre an engineer from africa and youve moved here at 23, think they give a damn about QQ facebook is immoral? Yeah I think not.
[+] UMBReate|6 years ago|reply
Somehow as per my experience, I feel quite different when it comes to trusting the same company, when I'm a user, and when I'm the employee. I find it easier to be an employee of the company that quite a few users find fishy, but I get it why some would trust it even less to be good to the workers that they pay, when they are bad to the users that pay them.
[+] mips_avatar|6 years ago|reply
I’m pretty sure the stock grant is vested over 4 years. So quoting the full stock as year 1 compensation isn’t accurate.
[+] akhilcacharya|6 years ago|reply
The bonus number is inflated by the intern signing bonus - which can be anywhere from $65k to $100k.

It's usually better to just ask people rather than using average salary data like this. Most people don't negotiate and get very standard offers.

[+] Zaheer|6 years ago|reply
I think there's still room for compiling aggregate salary data. I'm from levels.fyi and we get emails all the time about how folks were able to negotiate higher based on our data. We're entirely crowdsourced which admittingly can lead to accuracy issues occasionally. So far, feedback from both companies and users has been that are numbers are quite accurate. I think one of the most important features we recently released has been the Salary band pages which show the full spectrum of compensation at a particular level: https://www.levels.fyi/salary/Facebook/SE/E3/

I acknowledge we're not perfect, but would love feedback to help us improve. Majority of the site has been built based on feedback we've collected.

[+] papln|6 years ago|reply
Do you mean inviduals should ask people, or reporters should do surveys?

It's a privilege to have access to people able, willing, and trustworthy to share their Facebook salary data.