[ummonk]

Almost half the compensation comes from stock grants, which Glassdoor doesn’t measure. Look up what people have entered in the levels.fyi spreadsheet if you want to see actual comp.

[urda]

Those values are almost always inflated upwards and should be taken with a few grains of salt.

[ummonk]

I recently did a lot of interviewing and found the levels.fyi numbers very accurate to the offers / potential offers I was seeing.

[swiftcoder]

They also depend heavily on the performance of the company in question. Amazon's stock went up 8x in the 6 years I worked there, so the original numbers vastly underestimate the reality.