[vvanders]

> Give bonuses to my employees, who are working their tails off, to prevent resentment. Especially in the over-worked video game industry.

Hah.

I've know a few people on break-away titles(on the level of fortnight for an era) in my time in that industry. In most of those cases the employer or publisher had slipped in some sort of cap in royalties on a per-employee basis. So while their % cut of royalties was in the 7-figures they never saw anything above 6-figures.

Kudos on you for thinking this way but I'd be surprised if most of the people working on Fortnight are seeing more than mid FAANG compensation.

[Impossible]

Mid FAANG level compensation goes a lot further in Cary, NC than it does in the Bay Area though. If bonuses are 3-4x salary like mentioned in the article, then most employees are making more than they would for an equivalent role at FAANG (baring stock anomalies). According to glass door senior software engineers at Epic make around ~$150K. Three to four times that is $450K-$600K, which is higher than the equivalent at FAANG according to level.fyi (L5 at Google and E5 at FB make ~$350K). This isn't justifying crunch so much as it's pointing out that Epic games seems to be paying out bonuses that are on another level. I've worked on break-away game titles and currently work at FAANG so I generally agree with you and have points of reference.

[MuffinFlavored]

> more than mid FAANG compensation.

Do FAANG do remote? If so... what's that compensation like?

[GarMan]

I remote for Amazon (as part of twitch but know other amazon remotes) but from my experience when other FAANG recruiters cold call me remote at those companies is discouraged. Amazon pays based on regions so my salary does not match what the ancestor post claims but would if I lived in the Bay Area.

[MuffinFlavored]

levels.fyi says an SDE III (Senior SDE) should make $300k/yr in total compensation at Amazon working in a non-inflated city like Austin, TX.

Is that in line with your compensation?

[GarMan]

Close enough (I’m not in the USA)

[nscalf]

levels.fyi

[MuffinFlavored]

so... in Miami, I make $150k working for a non-FAANG company as a senior software engineer.

If I worked for a FAANG company, I'd make $300k?

[tiredyam]

Total comp yup, but guess what.. if you are senior at a non faang company you will not be a senior at a faang company, likely L4. Even then your TC will be ~250 at the right company

[MuffinFlavored]

so... the generally accepted knowledge of the software industry is... you will make an extra $100k/yr+ minimum if you go work for a FAANG company.

Why doesn't everybody want to work for FAANG companies then?